Tag: post-communism
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Dictators rule by fear, democracies by hidden elites
Totalitarian regimes thrive on clarity. The state names the enemy openly, propaganda repeats it endlessly, and every citizen knows who to fear. Stalin labeled kulaks and wreckers. Hitler made Jews and Communists the ultimate threat. Mao identified counter-revolutionaries and rightists. These regimes could not survive without pointing to a visible enemy. The methods were brutal…
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Economical comparison between communist regime and democracy in the Czech Republic
Some smart people often attached tables where they compare the average wage in the communist regime and the average now. They want to demonstrate how many loaves of bread, gasoline, flour you could have afforded in the previous regime and now. And of course, nowadays regime excels. However, my sensible reader feels some foul play.…
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European parody of freedom of speech
They say freedom of speech is embedded in the constitutions of many European countries. But what kind of freedom of speech do they mean? You cannot loathe the Romani people, Jews, adhere to Nazism, promote ideologies that repress human rights. The tattoos are banned and so on. I remember an article published in some Czech…