Plato and art censorship (fwd)

[Stanislav Tchernyshov]

        Daniel R-L:

        The trouble is, censorship has always existed in Russia,
        not just during the Soviet period, but also in the earlier
tsarist period.
        Censorship there is not specifically a "Marxist" thing, but a
Russian
thing.

I'm sorry, but I disagree.
If you start judging by the name, censorchip (cenzura) doesn't seem to
be a "Russian thing", and indeed, it isn't. If you just look at the
history of Catholic and Protestant Western countries, European (and
Asian or Latin American) dictatorships of this century, and the notion
of "political correctness" nowadays, you easily find out that either
this almost omnipresent censorship does not deserve this "made in
Russia" label, or that the Russian influence in the world history is
surprisingly overwhelming, and all the others just couldn't resist it.

Stanislav Tchernyshov
Academic Supervisor

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