Masks are about Dehumanization of the populace. One of the precursors to state sponsored terror and murder. Examples: Armenians under the Turks, Kulaks under Stalin.... and the list can go on.
Maybe they shouldn't have betrayed the country when it was at war and fighting for survival. But the blame also goes to the Tsar who had his Moscow Church call the Americans to rise in a holy war (and later Stalin even had Muslim leaders declare a literal jihad in the Germans, in addition to the general holy war as in the famous Soviet song, but that's another story).
Masks are about Dehumanization of the populace. One of the precursors to state sponsored terror and murder. Examples: Armenians under the Turks, Kulaks under Stalin.... and the list can go on.
Maybe they shouldn't have betrayed the country when it was at war and fighting for survival. But the blame also goes to the Tsar who had his Moscow Church call the Americans to rise in a holy war (and later Stalin even had Muslim leaders declare a literal jihad in the Germans, in addition to the general holy war as in the famous Soviet song, but that's another story).