Question by dreamyhotty: How were personal freedoms respected in the USSR?
Freedom of speech, religion – travel?
Would there be concentration camps or any form of punishment for those who tried to exercise such rights, like in modern Communist/People’s/Socialist nations?
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Answer by nightshadow
Personal freedom?? no personal freedom…collective freedom, communism remember? big brother…1984, the movie equilibrium
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Winter Glory says
In Russia is freedom of speech. In America is also freedom AFTER speech.
— Yakov Smirnoff —
Concentration camps? No..but the KGB would be knockin'.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
Lonnie P says
There was no such thing as 'personal freedom' in the USSR; kind of like there will soon BE no personal freedom here in the USA. Not that there's much left after passage and re-affirmation of the so-called 'Patriot Act.' Brother Obumble will soon end whatever is left.