Hey, I’m sorry. Did the government censors drop by much to tell you what to print or did they just tell you what not to print? It must have been very frightening to know that at anytime you could have been killed or shipped off to a prison, never to be seen again. Thank God that you were able to escape that type of job and become able to publish on Samizdats, like FReeRepublic. Please continue to share the similarities of your experience as a journalist living in the so-called free world and how it’s just like the Soviet/Putin world.
You know what I’m sorry about? I’m sorry that some people are so blinded by their hate for Putin that they forget how Russia developed the ‘press policy’ it did.
While you and others bitch mightily, the press right here, with Govt. help, in America, has helped strip your gun rights, your speech rights, pushed every manner of dangerous/deviant behavior as normal, ect.
So when you get sore, climb down of that moral high horse of yours and realize that we are, by the day, moving closer and eventually will get fully to Russia’s press BS. And considering Barry recently pushed for government newsroom monitors, we are pretty much there now.