This is just as our Eastern European brothers and sisters experienced and warned us about.

The mass ignorance and fear compelled a disbelief of citizenry in rationalizing it can't get any worse than this. This was a mass psychosis that prevented them to react. They falsely reasoned the measure imposed by their new government was only temporary and things will get better.

This is what they told themselves to placate themselves.

Yet the Tyranny only grew and worsened because they didn't act and resist to stop it. By the time they realized their dreadful mistake, tyranny spread to where the food sources were cut off to non-compliant areas, Millions and millions died. Resistors were rounded up and disappeared into the gulag system.