The Power of the Powerless

Vaclav Havel's text from 1978, about the dissidence, the origins of Charter 77 and the choice of refusing to live in a lie.
For me, what it defines very well the former communist societies:

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsified the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.