"ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law :
a) freedom of speech;
b) freedom of the press;
c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations; These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights. "
I'm not a huge fan of how the Soviet Union dealt with Kronstadt or Makhnovia, and I'm especially not a fan of some of the policies in the later years of the Soviet Union. Also not a huge fan of some of the policies relating to science in the earlier years. That said, I don't think many of the practical limitations on freedom of speech in the Soviet Union were at all unique to it.
"ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law :
a) freedom of speech;
b) freedom of the press;
c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations; These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights. "
I'm not a huge fan of how the Soviet Union dealt with Kronstadt or Makhnovia, and I'm especially not a fan of some of the policies in the later years of the Soviet Union. Also not a huge fan of some of the policies relating to science in the earlier years. That said, I don't think many of the practical limitations on freedom of speech in the Soviet Union were at all unique to it.