The Soviet leadership was absolutely terrified of many-to-many means of communication, going so far as to impose extremely tight controls on access to photocopiers, even most high level members of the party couldn’t get access. [emphasis added]
That would seem to imply that it was an overreaction, demonstrating the depths of their paranoia, or at least that’s how I interpreted it.
It’t not that it was irrational
That would seem to imply that it was an overreaction, demonstrating the depths of their paranoia, or at least that’s how I interpreted it.