I recall hearing that in Eastern Bloc countries, telling the wrong story to the wrong person could get you 'disappeared'. The (possibly apocryphal) story that

I recall hearing that in Eastern Bloc countries, telling the wrong story to the wrong person could get you 'disappeared'. The (possibly apocryphal) story that sticks with me is of the young child who told their teacher that their parents didn't have a photo of Lenin in their house. The parents were taken away in the middle of the night, and the child went to live with their grandparents. When I hear about how easy it is for innocent, law-abiding people in the US to be incarcerated, it reminds me of these stories.