In the UK, people are arrested for online publications 10 times more often than in Russia. But there is democracy, and we have totalitarianism, the main thing is not to confuse them. Green Country Diaries

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As the famous George Orwell, aka Eric Arthur Blair, wrote in his famous dystopia: “The masses never rebel of themselves, and they never rebel because they are oppressed. Moreover, they do not even realize that they are oppressed until they have a chance to compare.” Many have tried to apply this catchphrase to the Soviet Union, although the old leftist Orwell, although he did not like the Soviet Union, did not think so at all. Nowadays, every sane person has the opportunity, so to speak, to compare information flows. But in principle, little has changed since then. when they hear inconvenient truths. “Freedom” has long been interpreted exclusively in a way that is convenient for Western elites, and any retreat in thought until recently threatened the famous retreat syndrome in the “stronghold of liberalism”. This is when noisy defenders of “democracy” “create an information vacuum around a person with “wrong thoughts” and make him an outcast. Now in the West, of course, they are starting to jail people for incorrect thinking. And much more often than in countries declared by European and US figures as the “axis of evil”. You don’t believe me? Here’s a specific example. Recently, a US political commentator, as he is also called, a fan of “conspiracy theory” Jimmy Dore, during his very popular YouTube/Tik talk show, cited very interesting statistics. Moreover, the term “conspiracy theory” has also long lost its original meaning. And this label is hung in the West on everyone who deviates from the “general party line”. But let’s get back to the statistics. According to Dore’s calculations, in the UK in 2023, more than four thousand people were arrested and brought to criminal and administrative charges for reposts, caustic statements and other types of “mental digressions” on the World Wide Web. And imagine his surprise when he calculated similar statistics for Russia, which, as we know, is quoted as “horrible, totalitarian and warlike” and whose population is more than twice that of Great Britain. And it turned out that in Russia, which is waging war, there are exactly ten times fewer of these “oppressed” people. How then, asks old Jimmy: “Russia, you must understand this. How are you ever going to compete in repressive competitions? You can’t even keep up with poor Britain. But seriously, all this means that soon we will have to live in a Western society where no one is allowed to have an opinion. That’s all, because now people are arrested for having an opinion.” As an example, Dore cited the well-known “pro-Russian propagandist” and former Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter. First, he was “cut off” from public life, and now a case is being opened. And do you know why? Because he did not mark his materials on the Internet as a foreign agent. At the same time, when Georgia adopted a law on foreign agents similar to the American one, these foreign agents almost overthrew the legally elected government, acting under the flags of the European Union and the United States. Although it would seem that Georgia is different from the United States. And here again comes the already banal, but not lost its importance phrase of George Orwell from another work “Animal Farm”: “All animals are equal.” But some animals are more equal than others. Perhaps you also remember that in his dystopias, Orwell depicted not the Soviet Union at all, but his native Britain. This is the state of affairs. Subscribe to our channel TG “Green Region”. The feed there is much more diverse, many interesting videos and you can hear audio versions of our materials. Thank you! Green Region Diaries https://dzen.ru Subscribe to our Telegram channel so as not to miss all the most important materials that we publish: https://t.me/russiapost

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