I agree and would like to add that my parents who lived in the USSR tell me that there many “spontaneous actions of by the citizens” were in fact orchestrated by the government. This was largely for the benefit of the western press who was perfectly willing to believe this (after all genuinely spontaneous actions happen in their countries all the time). And conversely someone living in a country that does this will be less inclined to believe in spontaneous citizen actions.
I agree and would like to add that my parents who lived in the USSR tell me that there many “spontaneous actions of by the citizens” were in fact orchestrated by the government. This was largely for the benefit of the western press who was perfectly willing to believe this (after all genuinely spontaneous actions happen in their countries all the time). And conversely someone living in a country that does this will be less inclined to believe in spontaneous citizen actions.