Informers, interrogation and gulags

Informers

• A huge media campaign started, encouraging ordinary people to criticise Party officials, bureaucrats and managers
• This harnessed popular dissatisfaction with officials and resulted in a huge number of denunciations and srrests
• People were encouraged to denounce saboteurs in the workplace
• The Russian people themselves collaborated enthusiastically with the persecution
• Many Russians denounced their friends and neighbours; in some ways, this was a survival strategy and an attempt to prove their…