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What Is Soviet Russia?
Fischer, Louis | July 6, 1932 issue

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The article focuses on the Soviet Russia in the year 1932. Experience has shown that long before bolshevism appeals on the horizon, democracy is wiped out by a fascist dictatorship. In Hungary, Poland, Jugoslavia, Italy, and to a rapidly increasing extent in Germany, the alternatives are capitalist dictatorship and white terror on the one hand and Soviet dictatorship on the other. Nevertheless, true speech is an invaluable asset to the individual and the state. It serves as a check on governmental error and unrestrained empiricism. But in Russia even the Bolshevik does not enjoy complete freedom of expression, and the non-Communist, even if a devoted friend of the Soviets, is condemned to silence on political matters.

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DICTATORSHIP; FASCISM; DEMOCRACY; EMPIRICISM; KNOWLEDGE, Theory of; SPEECH
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