Aren’t allies to…?
Anybody other than their own very specific flavor of tankie … and when it comes down to it, likely not even that, either. Even someone they 100% ideologically agree with might have to be purged if they represent a threat to a tankie’s power.
prevented citizens from leaving
That’s the biggest red flag (pun maybe intended) in any system ever.
If the system tries to make it illegal to leave the system, then you know that’s a truly horrible system. Any system worth participating in doesn’t need to force participation.
(Not just governments, either. A religion that tries to prevent and penalize people leaving the religion is a shitty system. A street gang that tries to prevent gang members from leaving the gang is a shitty system.)
But they like the state being immune.
Because they read a 90-year old book once that said a socialist state will always have the workers’ best interests at heart, and they somehow believe that will always be the case. So of course they want their “”“perfect”“” worker’s state to be immune.