(Mirror.)

Yesteryear I read about this Serbian institute during Axis occupation which treated communism as a mental illness. They hypothesized that we turn to communism because of some mental trauma, particularly in a family, and they had us write about our politics to help understand them better. They said that our ‘illness’ was not our faults. The personnel were instructed to keep their indoctrination as subtle as possible and even show us compassion… most of the time.

This was basically an example of ‘moderate’ anticommunism put into practice systematically, but, uh… spoilers:

spoiler

It usually didn’t work, and the ‘moderate’ treatment didn’t last forever.