This is best seen in the book when Stalin dies. The communist party officials are in mourning. When they solemnly announce it to their prisoners in the Gulag, or the Romanian children at the Siberian school, all of them start cheering. The party officials are stunned that the Romanian captives hate Stalin, as though it is blasphemy. They assumed that deporting the Romanians, making them starve and work, would re-educate them into realizing the wonders of communism. It never occurred to them that oppressing your enemies makes them hate you, just as our own elites can’t understand why young white men aren’t signing up for the military or voting Democrat. https://orthodoxreflections.com/book-review-do-not-avenge-us-testimonies-about-the-suffering-of-the-romanians-deported-from-bessarabia-to-siberia/