First, that’s a fantastic video. I’ve been linking and recommending it to others since it appeared. Everyone should watch it.
Second, by coincidence, I just got back from a two week holiday in Albania. Fascinating place, if complicated and problematic on many levels. But the relevant bit is that they are quite open and forthright about their troubled history during the years of Communist dictatorship.
They had their own version of East Germany’s infamous Stasi, called the Sigurimi (link). Their historical museums include details on their operations, which included wide recruitment of ordinary citizens as informers. They had mockups of some actual operations, including a microphone hidden in a cleaning lady’s broom and a pinhole camera drilled into the wall of a “controlled person,” to be operated by a neighbor.
The money piece, for me, was a contemporary quote from an Albanian priest, who expressed sad astonishment that the population could be revealed to hold so many willing thugs. I stood in front of that display, reading the quote over and over, my skin prickling unpleasantly.
I suspect many people are about to have a similarly unhappy awakening.