Your Question: "Can you provide me with any evidence about my lack of intellect?"
Your answered your own question in yout Previous Statement: "We live in modern times though, and something like that wouldn’t happen in the US"
You are blindly buying into the panacea that we are now civilized, and past generations were barbarians. Don't you know that everyone lives in "modern times". Its impossible to live in the past. Every human that was subjugated and/or killed by a tyrannical government, be Russian, German, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, British, French, etc., was living in their modern times, and these were the highest level of their civilization (at that time). So we are in the exact same condition now. But we do have an advantage! We have the documented historical, factual evidence of what has happened when individuals have been stripped of their ability to resist.