That's the plan. Just like bolshevist Russia. I think solzhenitsyn called them the "true believers" but the ones in gulag who were convinced they were mistakenly placed there, everyone except them were agents against the state, and everything would be fine if they could just let Stalin know the situation. The local nkvd was corrupt and if Stalin only knew how his followers were lumped in with rascals, why, he would match right down there and blah blah.

He said they droned on incessantly like this. "Constant buzzing in their head" He said they were the weakest is prison. I think it's too easy to correlate that with the mask or shot pushers.