Clear and Present Danger – Episode 40 – The Age of Human Rights: Tragedy and Triumph
…f free expression by including simultaneous obligations to prohibit the broadly defined concept of “incitement to hatred”. But ultimately the very human rights language which the communist states had sought to contain in an awkward embrace, escaped their grasp and ended up eroding the communist stranglehold on power. But the repressive legacy of Communism had a long half-life even after the ideology itself had been dumped on the ash heap of histor…