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That call-out Inquisitor Orlov and the NKVD were the Secret Police.

I wouldn't have an issue with anyone "snitching" on Red fascists who tortured to death radicals like Andres Nin, who was skinned alive by agents of Stalin. Andres Nin was one of Orwell's best buddies during the Civil War.

Back in the days there was a dangerous superstructure in support of the national Bolchevik mafias. The historical equivalent of the Appelistas had a potential for organized violence that wasn't limited to just ganging up on some individuals to send them to hospital. They had guns, money, moles, an intelligence agency, a background hierarchy and above all a supportive foreign power. They were part of a foreign administration and their Comrades were taking their orders from the General Secretary of the Party. Hence, the pigs.