"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

Lie, Ability, Nation, Self

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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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