> the Soviet Constitution of 1936 guaranteed more rights than any other state in the world. I recall a Soviet citizen telling me that people in the USSR had abs

> the Soviet Constitution of 1936 guaranteed more rights than any other state in the world. I recall a Soviet citizen telling me that people in the USSR had absolute freedom of speech—so long as they did not lie Actually I heard it as “The people of the USSR had complete and absolute freedom of speech... but only once”. Lie or not, if the state didn’t like it, you ended up in a concentration camp.