comparing freedoms in Russia & America. Russians had substantially more.
Any article making such an analysis would be either dishonest or lunatic.
21 posted on 02/16/2008 5:54:55 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
Not so fast! Today's Russia does not have the intrusive government in place it had under Soviet rule. Even then, for instance, if a guy wanted to build a shed in his back yard, who would give him more hoops to jump over, the Soviet or your city government?
More ... How about a guy smoking a cigarette in a public outdoor area? A teacher hugging a student? Telling a ethnic or sexual preference joke? etc...