Censorship
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Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient"
Censor bars are typically seen as a form of censorship.
Book burning in Chile following the 1973 coup that installed the Pinochet regime
China destroyed the statue Goddess of Democracy during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
A visitor inside Putin's Palace in Russia, who presumably censored their face to avoid legal retaliation for distributing the photo
Goddess of Democracy
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The Goddess of Democracy, also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, the Spirit of Democracy, and the Goddess of Liberty, was a 10-metre-tall statue created during the 1989 Tiananmen Square p
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…and the organizations to which they belonged were investigated in detail, which made it easier to dismiss or arrest them. China destroyed the statue Goddess of Democracy during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 From 1956 until 1974, the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin was banned from participating in…
Goddess of Democracy
Vera Mukhina's Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture (seen on a Russian stamp here on the right) influenced the creators of the Goddess of Democracy
Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C., recreation by Thomas Marsh
A Goddess of Democracy statue in a different pose, in Hong Kong at the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen protests of 1989