You skipped something - besides the foreign entities that represent a perpetual threat, you also have the internal elements classified as "fierce civil libertarians", for now ;-)
Yes, yes, we had those, too. In the beginning, they were fierce opposites of progress, prisoners of the old mentality. It then became rather uncomfortable to label them as such, when a twenty-year old mentality was about as old as the regime itself, so we ended up with similar derogatory terms: fiercely anarchist, adversaries of order, hippies, and as the reality got more and more dire, mentally-troubled and drug users.
Yeah, there were enough terms for it. The scarring this left in the popular consciousness is impressive though. More than twenty years later, the exact same phrasings are still being used occasionally, and with the same meanings, especially by older people.
The sorriest part is that today's teenagers don't notice it, or don't know it. and underestimate what's under the words. A couple of years ago I went to visit my parents and I went hiking. There was a group of secondary school students who were on a school trip with their teacher, an obtuse, uptight old lady who had probably missed a couple of anger management appointments. I wasn't travelling with them, we were just hiking on the same trail, but hearing her yell and shout was probably doable a couple of hike trails away, too.
I don't interfere with this -- I hated school and firmly believe in natural selection, so I leave it to kids to make the life of these people as miserable as possible -- but when she scoffed at two particularly dedicated malcontents, calling them the "most agitating elements of the classroom" and "hooligans" (the word is actually somewhat more politically-loaded, but untranslatable -- it's roughly similar with, but not quite, "hooligan"), I snapped and asked her if this assessment is going to go on the record she'll write (again, untranslatable -- what I used was slang for "are you going to write this in your signed declaration for the state security apparatus", as a couple of decades into the regime, it became well-known that some citizens were actually spying and reporting on their neighbours, colleagues and friends). The combination of hatred, surprise, and desperation at not being able to "write me up" or otherwise screw with me, since -- not being her pupil -- I wasn't subject to he whims was chilling.
Dude, all of what you said happened in Romania, word for word, including the usage of "hooligans" and the reporting of "agitating elements" to the security apparatus. People were scared shitless that their own neighbours are going to report them for whatever crap they were doing (I distinctively remember my mother bringing home bananas and telling me to be quiet about it, as bananas, like other tropical fruits were quite rare).
It's distressing, because the way that felonies and whatnot are handled nowadays, there does seem to be a rough approximation of this sort of black book phenomenon.
