The historical NKVD:

The NKVD struck with lightening speed. Less than four weeks into the invasion, the Belorussian NKVD had already identified no fewer than 3,535 counterrevolutionary “elements,” and by late November 1939 the organization had already arrested nearly 12,000 people throughout the former eastern Polish territories.11 When the NKVD chief in Belorussia reported the arrest of some 581 Polish officers and army reservists in early December, he emphasized that they were targeted based on compromising materials. Evidently, the system was already fully functioning.12 By the spring of 1940, the Polish underground, the NKVD’s main target, practically ceased to exist, with most of its members arrested and directed to the Soviet courts and prisons. A similar fate befell the resilient Ukrainian nationalist organizations
following the arrest of over 4,400 activists. […]

How and where did they obtain their information while operating in an unequivocally hostile environment? Not surprisingly, the initial information gathering on the ground relied on and utilized social and political cleavages. Individuals and cohorts with grievances were violently unleashed against their opponents, providing the arriving authorities with a foundation on which to build. In eastern Poland, peasant committees identified and attacked Polish settlers and in the Baltic states Communists released from lengthy prison terms pledged to “decisively cleanse the state and economic apparatus of people who hamper socialist construction” and “purge the government of spies, provocateurs, and villains [and] enemies of the people.”17 By December 1940, all relevant documents on the suppression of the communist uprising in December 1924 had been excavated, and those associated with the ensuing trial were arrested. Tellingly, the NKVD investigation was led by the son of a prominent murdered communist leader, who returned to Estonia to avenge his father’s death. As we will see below, the authorities were aware of the potential bias of such sources, which they excused as nothing more than the collateral damage of revolutionary justice and—more relevantly—as providing fertile ground for the recruitment of informants and solicitation of compromising material.

University of Colorado’s “report meany speech” to authorities …

If someone says anything mean-spirited at the University of Colorado Boulder – campus administrators want to know about it. Not only that – they want to know the offender’s name, age, email address and more.

University of Colorado-Boulder has launched a new campaign encouraging students to report any “bias” they come across to campus authorities, who collect details including offenders’ names, birthdays, genders – even social security numbers – along with a description of the “incident.”

The “Bias Incident Reporting” effort aims to “address the impact of demeaning and hurtful statements as well as acts of intolerance directed towards protected classes,” CU Boulder’s website states.

Examples of bias, according to a corresponding poster campaign highlighting the reporting system, include calling people names or making fun of their culture.

“This in no way is meant to curtail free speech,” campus spokesman Ryan Huff told The College Fix in an email. “We support the First Amendment and want our students to challenge one another in academic ways. We don’t support, however, the use of racial slurs and other demeaning bias-motivated acts.”

Students who perceive or witness “bias-motivated incidents” are asked to report them immediately by filing a “student of concern” report.

The online submission form prompts students for the name, birthday, gender, phone number, and e-mail of any involved person. The form gives the reporter space to CUBouldersrprovide the ID number of students implicated in the incident. However, should those involved not be students, drivers’ license numbers or social security numbers are suggested substitutes.

Comrades! Utopia is just a few purges away!

h/t Weasel Zippers