Historically, the collapses of dictatorships from the Soviet Union to Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania demonstrate that the sudden withdrawal of the security forces' loyalty is often the final nail in the coffin of the propaganda narrative. Once the enforcement mechanism falters, the narrative of total state control instantly evaporates. The very people who were producing and disseminating the lies suddenly find their allegiance shifting to the popular will, realizing that the dictator's power was never as absolute as his image proclaimed.
