Even with USSR gone, much of this 25-year-old interview rings true today about how tyranny can take hold (also uses populist terms of our day like "social justice" before they were vogue and how appealing such concepts sound on the surface but ultimately serve a crucial role in the demoralization aspect in the endless pursuit of "equality at all costs"):
[video=youtube;_Iz3VjoHXLA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz3VjoHXLA[/video] (there will be some disagreement with some pix in the slideshow, I'm sure, and the visual emphasis on the current Pres, but his own commie roots and influences make this particularly timely)
Covering the four stages, including demoralization, crisis, normalization and destabilization.
I'm not suggesting this is exactly what is transpiring today but some of the parallels are hard to deny.