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Well, they created terror in the people that they dealt with in many cases... people hunting down their neighbors, or "informing" on them... like a big brother situation where you knew if you told the government about certain things, that your family or neighbors would disappear just because of what you said. It gave some people a false sense of power (false because they were subject to the same thing from others), but it terrified a lot of people who knew that if someone just lied about them, they could be in a lot of trouble, or lose friends, or lose their lives.

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