In a constitutional state like America the suppression of liberty is called the inhibition of license; in a dictatorship like Moscow it is termed resistance to the admission of incorrect “bourgeois” notions.
This statement contrasts how liberty suppression is framed differently in democratic versus dictatorial regimes.
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