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As George Washington once said, âIf freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughterâ is a concept that is connected to the policy that was appointed in Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev, the new leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic launched three policies in 1985, to modernize and revitalize the Soviet Union. The three policies were Perestroika, a political movement for reformation within the Communist party, Glasnost, the open discussion of political/social issues, and Demokratizatsia, which enabled them to make changes by permitting wider access to the government (Cold War Perestroika and Glasnost). The Glasnost policy brought enormous changes, politically and socially in the Soviet Union. It brought openness to the media and reduced the traditional constraints on the flow of government.
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Innocent Chukwuma: Evergreen legacies that never fade
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By Adewale Adeoye
His death struck like lightning: swift, decisive and frightening. How can we humans disappear, like a loose kite in the sky, just like that, with all the knowledge, the wits, the future we all look at, like a far off blistering star?
If death was thoughtful enough, Inno should not have been the next victim. If death had listed excellent people at the bottom of its roll call and villains on the top,
Inno would have lived up to 100 years and disgusting rulers would have been consumed in rage. But death is nagging, unpredictable, indiscriminate, like the feeding habits of house flies: It sometimes takes the righteous, leaving behind the nasty and the cruel. Wicked and malicious beings scale the hurdle; they sometimes dwell long, even outliving the victims of their despotism.