People were afraid to be the first to stop clapping.
The Soviet government used fear and terror to
control its citizens.
Explanation:
Stalin's Soviet Union was the first totalitarian government after World War I. The failure of the proletarian struggle of the Communist Party to achieve any substantial objective forced Stalin to make some radical changes to the Communist Party. He acquired a dictatorial position as the supreme leader of the Soviet Union. He regulated the Great Purge, in which he used threats and violence to retain full control of the country. He had made anyone killed who posed some sort of threat to him and in the process, many have perished and more lost their social life.
