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In ex Yugoslavia we had secret laws, published by secret official journal and enforced by secret courts. So you could easily get persecuted for breaking the la
by JanezStupar 13y ago
In ex Yugoslavia we had secret laws, published by secret official journal and enforced by secret courts.
So you could easily get persecuted for breaking the law that you were prohibited to know it even existed.
The same was going on in east Germany and other socialist countries.
I warmly recommend watching The Lives of Others (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/) to those who haven't seen it yet.
- weland 13y agoMy surprise was directed at the fact that people have this in a system advertised as democratic. I am quite well-acquainted with cases like those you quote.
- dllthomas 13y ago"Advertised as democratic" won't get you very far in predicting how democratic a country is.
- bbotond 13y agoThe Soviet Union was advertised as democratic. Nazi Germany was advertised as democratic. Communist China was/is advertised as democratic.
- discodave 13y agoMy old debating coaches saying was that any country with 'democratic' or 'peoples' in it's name was most certainly not either of those things.
- weland 13y agoAye, but no Chinese without political involvement and no mental problems would freely claim (and believe!) he's a free man living under a democratic regime.
- flyinRyan 13y agoAmusing that the US claimed victory in the cold war and then ends up adopting all their "enemies'" worst stuff.
- junto 13y agoThey didn't give all those ex-Nazi scientists jobs for nothing you know.
- gizzlon 13y agoThis seriously sounds like Kafka's The trial :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial)