Soviet rulers encouraged envy among their citizenry.

Look at what Thomas E. Woods, Jr., wrote about how Soviet rulers “encouraged greed in the ruling class and apathy, envy, and alienation among everyone else”: The Supreme Soviet’s Anatoly Sobchak once remarked, “Our people cannot endure seeing someone else earn more than they do. … They are so jealous of other people that they …

Theodore Dalrymple on Political Correctness

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they …