From: Ian Parker-Joseph
James Higham at Nourishing Obscurity writes from personal experience."I too spent several years in Russia, in the years immediately following the fall of the communist regime, and can remember vividly the eyes of people around you, never making eye contact, always looking at the ground as they walked the city streets. But the one sound you never heard on the streets of Moscow at that time that struck me more than anything else, was laughter. In 95 they were still a people in fear of their own government, and the snitches who would denounce them".
It is far nastier than it seems at first glance:
One of the quirks of living in Russia was being among people just coming out of the USSR strictures whilst at the same time, things were being reported back here that the UK was moving towards a new serfdom, an EUSSR or UKSSR. If that seemed fanciful to many over here, it wasn’t to me as I saw the last vestiges and one of those was the policy of Denunciation.
Original Content at PJC Journal http://parker-joseph.com/pjcjournal/2012/07/26/snitching-loosens-social-cohesion/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100172650/hm-revenue-and-customs-want-school-kids-to-snitch-on-tax-dodgers-it-smacks-of-eastern-europe-pre-1989/
