Irony is, those in need of deprogramming the most are the ones into programming. How is it even possible that people that are supposed to be so intelligent/logical/rational are actually this gullible to state’s propaganda that they believe it without a shred of doubt.
Partly inflated egos, partly being so well paid by the spoils looted from the imperial periphery that even if they do realize it’s bullshit that they’ll keep up the anticommunism to defend their treats.