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> Freedom of speech is not requirement to broadcast. The USSR's constitution specified that not only was there freedom of speech but also freedom/right to "bro
by 77pt77 4y ago
> Freedom of speech is not requirement to broadcast.
The USSR's constitution specified that not only was there freedom of speech but also freedom/right to "broadcast".
The state would give anyone access to a printing press to disseminate speech.
In practice it was a bit different though.
- kneebonian 4y agoAn American man and a Russian man were arguing about which country was freer. The American said "I am so free I can walk up to the gates of the white house and scream 'down with Reagan, he stinks'". "I have that freedom too" responds the Soviet man, "I could walk over to the Kremlin right now and yell 'Down with Reagan he stinks'"