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mybordersmychoice [S] 1 point ago +3 / -2

Before embarrassing yourself anymore you should learn a bit about opposition to communism, especially in Poland through the peaceful efforts of Lech Wałęsa.

If the resistance to communism in Russia didn't have any way to communicate with each other or recruit additional members even more people would have died.

Spoiler alert: most of the time the resistance didn't look like your personal Rambo hollywood fantasy. And even when it did organized resistance movements depended heavily on Samiszdat, the transmission of banned information through paper copies, both for communication and general recruiting and psychological operations. Posters and flyers printed from computers are literally a modern form of Samiszdat. Communist governments took Samiszdat very seriously and punished it harshly.

Funny how communist governments were so afraid of this thing you consider useless and ineffective, isn't it?