>>in my view no communist country would invest in a national network because that would make information easier to transmit and this would undermine the regime.

>>in my view no communist country would invest in a national network because that would make information easier to transmit and this would undermine the regime. Keep people in the dark and they might be happy with their misserable life. Makes me think about a virtual Berlin Wall of sorts, which in the history of things is an obscure wall in that it was built no so much to keep things and people out but to keep people in. Quoting a book I recently read that taught me this is in order... """Communist regimes have routinely refused their citizens the right to exit--that is, to escape--the misery and destruction they have implemented within their own borders. In some cases, they erected walls to lock the masses into their workers' paradise: cement barriers patrolled by secret police with guns aimed not outward at some perceived enemy seeking to enter, but inward upon the unarmed, immiserated populace. The ultimate symbols of that repression were the Berlin Wall, erected in August 1961 to keep the East Germans from fleeing to free West Berlin, and the fenced in people-zoo that was the Soviet Gulag, the prison system created by Lenin and Stalin.""" The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism – Paul Kengor