[borispavlovic]

That's the argument Solzhenitsin used in his Archipelag Goulag to explain the strand between the Tchetchens and Russians in the labor camps. Vendetta among Thecthens gave them super powers when confronted with Russians knowing they would go unpunished for inflicting fear

[wutangson1]

I wonder if it is the same phenomena though? Perhaps it is closer to how the Sephardic Jews operated in the Nazi concentration camps as detailed by Primo Levi.