Latif Yahia, Uday Hussein's former body double reminisced that his imposed "employer" promised him and other torture victims to make them "happy". No matter the continent or regime, political dissidents remember (and still hear…) an equally sickening threat: "We will keep you busy".
When German government declassified Stasi files (1992), the greatest shock was delivered not by the facts that special machines had "discreetly" opened letters, or that human scent had been "collected", but by the methodology of Zersetzung – "biodegradation" of dissidents.