Look for a 90s movie called The Chekist. It popped up on voat as a recommendation regarding the Red Terror. I watched it, it is a brutal film. The Cheka came to villages after the revolution and rounded everyone up. Anyone who owned a shop was executed. Anyone in a professional job was executed. The rest were put on lists and the troika (3 man panel) would review the names and decide who was to be executed. A name on paper, nothing else. This is the way of communism.
Look for a 90s movie called The Chekist. It popped up on voat as a recommendation regarding the Red Terror. I watched it, it is a brutal film. The Cheka came to villages after the revolution and rounded everyone up. Anyone who owned a shop was executed. Anyone in a professional job was executed. The rest were put on lists and the troika (3 man panel) would review the names and decide who was to be executed. A name on paper, nothing else. This is the way of communism.