De, See the extra quote from Lenin I just included. Lenin recognized that de-centralized "Communism" wasn't very effective; his contribution was to organize/centralize it.
Also, getting around the "evidence" of silence has been one of the most troublesome aspects of explaining something like this: "But surely someone would have said something!"
I think we now have overwhelming evidence that "whistle-blowers" can be silenced very effectively; to a degree I would have thought impossible, if you had asked me 10-20 years ago. Viz: "conspiracy theorist!"; "racist! Blackmail. Murder. Threat of firing or lawsuit. Censorship (easy as pie, once you control effectively ALL mainstream media). Propaganda (probably 10-100X more effective than we would have thought before the internet and recent evidence of ow easy it is to control shunning and 'free speech'.) And general fatigue/ learned-helplessness of the plugged-in.
And that is all pretty much on top of the PROVEN effectiveness of Lenin's own strategy as well described in his quote ... and demonstrated in color-revolutions all over the world in the last 125+ years.
The naive person, at this point, is... unbelievably... the person who does NOT think something monstrous and organized can be silenced! The evidence of our lifetimes all says it is actually quite easy to silence almost anything. Indeed, arguably, the larger scale cover-ups may be actually easier to cover up, and the feedback and general frenzy quickly overwhelms the signal.
If you need one clear-cut piece of evidence of this: I'm sure you noticed that in the last few years the Democrats began SYSTEMATICALLY, pre-emptively accusing their opposition of all the things they, themselves, were doing or planning on doing.
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