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by PeterisP 2320 days ago
It comes off as a play on the old Cold War joke (crude translation of how I remember it being told in the 1980s in Russian) with an American and a Russian discussing about their regimes; and the American proudly says - we have freedom of speech, I can go next to the White House with a banner saying "Reagan is a fool!" and that's going to be okay; to which the Russian responds - so what, that's not any advantage, I can also go to the Red Square with a banner saying "Reagan is a fool!" and there won't be any problems...