I understand that the pressure exerted by the secret police was so high that the neighbors spied on each other, nobody trusted anyone, and of course, in an atmosphere of distrust among the population itself, no one is able to form a resistance against of the regime.
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I started to add a section on the importance that informants played in this system, but I was already running overlong ;>
and good point about distrust preventing cooperation