In Reply to: Well, that may exlain . . . . posted by Billy Wonka on December 26, 2018 at 08:42:23:
...but one thing has been clear for two decades now: they have been desperately trying to put some daylight between them and the communists.
Hence the different name for the same band of criminals. New titles, without any real new meaning. Slightly massaged abbreviation for the bloody and still feared secret police.
All that is supposed to give the unwashed masses reason to believe things have somehow changed. Of course, in reality nothing has changed. It is still the same totalitarian regime, simply somewhat adapted to modern times.
China is following pretty much the same model - there is on surface more freedom today, but don't you dare to cross that invisible line... the bloody communist shit hammer remains on the ready. Political assassinations did not go anywhere.
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