It's because they're totalitarians, not authoritarians. Authoritarians allow art and entertainment to exist so long as it does not criticize the regime. Under a totalitarian rule, everything that is not explicitly in service of the ideology must be destroyed.
Taking away the bread and circuses is a very eye raising move from the left.
You'd think they would want us complacent. Seems they don't.
It's because they're totalitarians, not authoritarians. Authoritarians allow art and entertainment to exist so long as it does not criticize the regime. Under a totalitarian rule, everything that is not explicitly in service of the ideology must be destroyed.
You mean the German Nat Soc Authoritarian System encouraged the advancement of non degenerate art, and architecture? WUUUUUUT?!?!?!?
Mind=Blown!
In Soviet Union we are having total authority.