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But, he added, "the country remains very divided regarding numerous aspects of the authoritarian past, notably how justified certain repressive measures were in order to prevent communist subversion."

It becomes somewhat of an allegory for living under this sort of repressive, patriarchal regime there in Iran.

Today's South Korea, however, is a far cry from that, and the repressive years that followed.

Surely Leonardo’s erotic and emotional subjectivity within a repressive milieu was not nothing in shaping his worldly explorations — especially as a “disciple of experience” — but Burns doesn’t go there.

In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.