There used to be a fundamental difference between the world’s socialist states and western democracies. Under a socialist system, children were seen as communal possessions and future components in the all-powerful collective. For this reason, they were taken at a young age and rigorously (often brutally) indoctrinated into state-thinking away from the potentially dissenting voices of their parents.
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