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.
Well, in fairness, photocopiers are commonly used for making posters, flyers and so on, especially back then.
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.