>In USSR you were free to write any book or newspaper opinion column. It's not a book or a newspaper column until it's printer as a book or in a newspaper. Yo

>In USSR you were free to write any book or newspaper opinion column. It's not a book or a newspaper column until it's printer as a book or in a newspaper. You were free to write a manuscript, even then you could get in trouble. >More subtle creations, where criticizing is expressed via proxy of science fiction or abstract ideas... could make you unemployable, locked up in an asylum, banned from major cities or imprisoned or even shot as an enemy of the people or a Hungarian spy, depending on the current leader. >That’s when you would have to go full P2P blockchain with SAMIZDAT... Which meant a single untrustworthy node in the chain could take you back to the previous paragraph. >But if your unbaised view on USSR party/leaders/direction/methods was aligned with the party... There was very little chance an unbiased view aligned with the party on anything important, especially party/leaders/direction/methods. >Another artifact of the USSR is a mandatory line in your CV and references - that you were never involved in any anti-USSR meetings, protests and movements. Unauthorized university poetry clubs, however removed from politics, have been classified as above.