Two legal cases, two newspapers, two different countries. In Russia, a court has thrown out a libel suit filed by Josef Stalin’s grandson against an article in Novaya Gazeta which said that the Soviet dictator was responsible for sending thousands of people to their deaths. A ruling against the paper would have been seen as exoneration of Stalin. But instead the court upheld the truth. It wasn’t like that in Uncle Joe’s day. In a London court, a bid to gag the proceedings of Parliament is upheld by the court, until it is overturned by the revolutionary might of the Twitter and internet community. It’s a topsy-turvy old world.
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