Would anyone be surprised to learn we have modern day gulags in America? Look up www.biggerthansnowden.com.
In the past several years if you became too woke, data analytics/AI would flag you and prompt the police state to investigate. If you were found to be of "anomalous human potential" you were targeted.
You can also be targeted for being a whistleblower, witness to corruption or if you pissed off someone who was in the intelligence community.
The East Germans did this to people because it was mostly undetectable/unprosecutable (zersetzung). With modern day technology it has been expanded globally.