>>30Smart people don't join the authoritarian movements to start with. In NSDAP only Hitler and a few of his close associates very smart enough. Others smart people were either beaten into submission, executed or kept actively sabotaging Nazism.
Same with USSR. When the large part of people got educated enough and demanded human rights, it has just fallen apart.
That is why totalitarian governments do everything to keep slaves uneducated and stupid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_United_States