Stalin's campaign to intimidate the population had no moral limits.
The Russians spent much of the early winter attacking Samashki with helicopter gunships to intimidate the population.
You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population.
The violence may have been to intimidate the population into providing the militia with gold and tin from nearby mines.
"Their aim is to intimidate the population, to create fear and uncertainty, and to create a fear among the people that drives them away from the coalition," Brig.
"This is the most scandalous effort to intimidate the population in the 10 years this government has been in power," said Rocío San Miguel, a prominent legal scholar who heads a nongovernmental organization that monitors Venezuelan security and defense issues.
Six weeks before I met him, he was scooped up in a zachistka -- one of the frequent house-by-house raids that the Russians use to seize suspected rebels and intimidate the population.
"So, as we know, this is a government trying to intimidate the population first by criminalising you and making you feel that you should subject yourself to any kind of humiliation, no humiliation is too low to go.
It found that security was less of a concern to Afghans than corruption or a lack of jobs, but attacks like the one in Pul-e-Alam were clearly intended by the Taliban to further intimidate the population before the election.
"Their aim is to intimidate the population, to create fear and uncertainty and to create a fear among the people that drives them away from the coalition, the emerging governing structures and security structures that are committed to a democratic country".
But he said former paramilitary units had been integrated into the regular police, had "continued to harass and intimidate" the population and were equipped with heavy armored personnel carriers in violation of the requirement that they should be only lightly armed.
