Re Terror, repressions, arbitrary arrests, all to induce learned helplessness in the population.
We wonder how people themselves taken to the Gulag can still idolize Stalin?
Terror works. PMCs may share the monopoly on violence. But Putin still holds the monopoly on state terror.

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