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UK Outdoes Soviet Union on Speech Persecution

By March 10, 2026March 13th, 2026No Comments

Source: @arctotherium42 on X —

Annualized, UK speech prosecutions are running at about 17x those of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev.

The USSR had 4x the population, so more like 68x the prosecutions/person year.

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