Freedom of Speech

A friend’s husband has been in the foreign service. They lived together in Warsaw and in Moscow, before the Iron Curtain parted. She tells me of a Polish friend who had lived in Canada, who claimed that Canada was much less free than Poland, even under the Communists.

“Everyone in Canada has to always watch what they say,” the friend explained. “You do not need to do this in Poland.”

I have found the same in South Korea and in the UAE. Speech is much freer here.