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That's false. The guy who wrote this book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_No_Evil_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_No_Evil_(book)) spent more than
by tivert 8y ago
That's false. The guy who wrote this book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_No_Evil_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_No_Evil_(book)) spent more than a decade in the Gulag because he was denied permission to emigrate across the Iron Curtain and was a human rights activist agitating for emigration rights.
- billfruit 8y agoI do think there were tourists from USSR visiting other countries including the western Europe. Political dissidents may have been subject to measures not applicable to the general public.
- tivert 8y ago> Political dissidents may have been subject to measures not applicable to the general public. He wasn't refused permission to emigrate because he was a dissident. IIRC, the refusal he received and those received by others are what lead him on the path to becoming a dissident.