I recently read an interesting book called "Ivan's War" that is an in depth look at WW2 from the Soviet side that extensively draws on 1st hand sources. One of

I recently read an interesting book called "Ivan's War" that is an in depth look at WW2 from the Soviet side that extensively draws on 1st hand sources. One of the things I found so interesting was that much of the Soviet framework was built upon ensuring you couldn't trust anyone, putting spies amongst military units to rat on their comrades, splitting apart units that had served together for a while, etc. The whole point wasn't to control thought, or stamp out disloyalty it was merely to make each person feel like they were alone and isolated. I have to wonder how much of some of these culture war issues have been brought into corporations in order to prevent the workers from organizing.