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You probably never lived in a communist (or any ultra authoritarian) state or never talked to somebody that did. The amount of horror that comes with it is beyond imagination, erosion of basic rights and threat of violent punishment for even the smallest infraction being on top of the list.

Everyone could be snitching on you and everything could be used against you. Your phone scanning your images probably brings back memories to the older people that most of politicians are.



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