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1848: Year of Revolution

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The Repression of Absolutism in Europe

There is no freedom of the press, so as soon as everything has to go through the censor. Almost all opposition political activity is taking place in cultural areas such as in clubs and so on. The absolutism is enforced very rigorously? Yeah, by the police and are necessary by the army. There's obviously no voting, I mean there's very, very, very narrow suffrage, it's less than 2% of the population. So really there is no kind of, there is no public sphere in terms of the way we think about it.

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