Oh, I forgot another key trait of soviet inspired astroturfing: the password for starting gang attacks on "enemies". The bosses must be very skilled at anger control and start the attack in an apparently mild, detached, almost "neutral" way, that must give third parties the impression they are impartial and objective. In the attack start speeches, some ideology principles the enemy infringed are stated with authoritative, detached and superior manner , as if they were universal principles instead. It so becomes a duty of the whole human kind (and particularly of "professional revolutionaries") to attack the reprobate.