Yes to both. The Insurrection Act was utilized during the Civil Rights era to insure state compliance with court decisions in the American South, and it was utilized again during the urban riots of 1967 and 1968 in cities like Detroit and Chicago.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii



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