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It's like straight out of Bolshevik handbook.

If you can catch a person stealing, it's open-shut case. Easy peasy.

If not, try to discredit them (appealing to the morals of the people) -- maybe they cheat on their spouse, or use prostitutes?

If that still doesn't work just try slapping an "enemy of the people" / fascist / reactionary label and see if it sticks.




They also tried to frame him as working for the Russians before and when that did not work as a pedophile:

https://wikileaks.org/Background-and-Documents-on-Attempts-t...




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