My parents were US diplomats stationed in Moscow in the 50's. The KGB would do things like disable the elevator in their apartment block just as they got home,

My parents were US diplomats stationed in Moscow in the 50's. The KGB would do things like disable the elevator in their apartment block just as they got home, only to turn it back on the moment they finished walking up to the top floor. Leave music playing in a next door apartment juuust loud enough to be disruptive. Block traffic on a certain street to cause my father to be late to an important meeting with his Soviet counterpart. The list of petty harassment would be pages long if I enumerated everything.