Pandora's Box 3/30 Adam Curtis (1992) The Engineers Plot

[lysol5555]

in Mao's china every village had a quota to declare 5% of its population rightists during anti-rightist campaign! So people turned other people in in fear of having to go to labor reform camps. To survive means betraying one's conscience. Do any of you want this terror happen again?

[TheAccidentalMonk]

One wonders what happened to the KGB agent who exceeded his quota of genital torture victims... "Comrade, you shouldn't have electrocuted this fellow's nuts, because you're now 1 over your quota. Give him a BJ to make up for your error."

[Treblaine]

"arrest quota"

Hmm, New Labour had "targets" like that in the UK

[099749]

6.28- 7.37, Zeitgiest and then some.