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by adambmedia 3303 days ago
Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz writes brilliantly in The Captive Mind how intellectuals, elites and creatives alike, essentially the intelligentsia of Krakow, Poland, were easily conscripted into the communist propeganda machine by various mechanisms which were essentially human weakness towards conformity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind