What can the state lie confronted with reality? He is condemned to abdicate before the facts, unless they are denied by a locked system. It was the explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 that accelerated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and then of the USSR, forced to tell the truth. The admission was made in 2007, in Le Figaro , by Mikhail Gorbachev: " More than anything else, the Chernobyl disaster opened the door to freedom of expression such that the system we knew could no longer continue. Glasnost did the rest. Will the coronavirus epidemic have the same liberating effects on totalitarian China? The health crisis is shaking the communist regime. The death of Doctor Li Wenliang, who had unsuccessfully alerted him to the virus that killed him, made him a gagged hero. "Stop restricting freedom of speech," argued ten teachers from Wuhan in a letter quickly censored by social networks. The survival of power is linked
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