💬 Opinion 2d ago · V. Patrick Poch

I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind

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I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind
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Four decades ago, I escaped Communist Czechoslovakia for America. Now my adopted homeland reminds me of the one that I fled.

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