PTSD and heroin/opium addiction. PTSD from the bombs and drug addiction from the pain killers the government would hand out to the soldiers like candy. Also the public hated them because this was the first televised war and the hippie movement/anti-war group was getting popular.
The total number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were
executed in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during
the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and
the rest were arrested Polish Intellegentsia who the Soviets considered to be
"intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers,
officials and priests"
She want them to work for her so she could get some rest i think
What is described is a political machine.
The Boss of a political machine is responsible for overseeing the operation and ensuring that his assistants are giving out the proper jobs and greasing the machine to ensure that people continue to take part in it.