They definitely took some cues from Russia in certain ways. I would agree. They’ve slowly whittled away at our “freedoms” in an effort to keep citizens subjugated without the majority even realizing it. And if anyone starts to try to figure out who the figurative Wizard of Oz is, the man behind the curtain, and blows the whistle, there is so much propaganda ingrained in a large majority of deliberately uneducated people that nobody believes it.