"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." Voltaire
It was not only forbidden to criticize Stalin, it was perhaps even more forbidden to announce this very prohibition Slavoj Zisek
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed." -Ayn Rand
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus, Roman Senator and Historian (A.D. c.56 - c. 115)
There's a clue somewhere in there.
You forgot norks dear leader, the one with the funny haircut.
I don’t think his people are allowed to express criticism without punishment.
PIAPS (pig ina pantsuit) screeching it’s patriotic to disagree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0