When the ruling party starts conducting kangaroo court proceedings versus rival presidential candidates, the temptation is to extrapolate to full Stalinist show trials - the regime culling its enemies as a signifier of victory rather than as a mechanism to achieve it.
Normally they'd just release a bunch of movies about incipient Hitlerslammerung leading up to the election--but the studios weren't thinking that far ahead
Normally they'd just release a bunch of movies about incipient Hitlerslammerung leading up to the election--but the studios weren't thinking that far ahead
Incompetent Repression is usually the worst choice.
Farcical exceeds it.