#self-exposure

• To unmask oneself — To reveal, confess, or expose on one's own initiative one's own secrets, hidden intentions, mistakes, guilt, or true identity, often involuntarily through behavior or under duress within ideological trials. In the historical context of totalitarian regimes, the action describes the act by which an individual publicly acknowledged their political deviations.
• Self-unmasking — The act of unmasking oneself and its result; the voluntary, involuntary, or forced process through which a person reveals their own secrets, errors, faults, or true hidden identity. In a structural historical sense, it represents the ideological re-education technique used in communist prisons and organizations for the psychological destruction of dissidents.