Totalitarian governments aim to destroy evidence of autonomous association, limit cultural alternatives, and weaken resistance by diminishing independent institutions. This destruction is executed rapidly with violence in regimes like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, while in democracies, it occurs gradually through propaganda, indoctrination, laws, regulations, and bureaucracy. Regardless of the method, the outcome is the same: citizens becoming subjects under the mastery of the state, potentially leading to enslavement despite the semblance of democratic rights.