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Lessons from the Soviet Union and the Flight to Safety | Simon Mikhailovich

Hidden Forces

CHAPTER

Freedom of Speech

It's amazing how different america is to day, tham, what it was in the nineties when i was a kid. I remember how notes were allowed to march in scoke, illinois, despite the protests of hollocas survivors. The fact that the people in academi have been quit, cancelled because of their views is so profoundly undemocratic and unamerican. In the soviet union, by that measure, there was complete freedom of speech. If you wanted to praise the government, you could do that as much as you wanted to - just as long as you didn't say anything against the system. What kind of freedom of speech is that?

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