However, being aware that a restriction of the press, even at critical moments, is permissible only within the limits of what is absolutely necessary, the Council of People’s Commissars resolves:
General Provisions on the Press
Only those publications can be suppressed which:
(1) call for open resistance or insubordination to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government;
(2) sow sedition through demonstrably slanderous distortion of facts;
(3) instigate actions of an obviously criminal, i.e. criminally punishable, nature.
Publications can be proscribed, temporarily or permanently, only by decision of the Council of People’s Commissars.
The present ordinance is of a temporary nature and will be repealed by a special decree as soon as normal conditions of social life set in.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin)
Petrograd, October 27, 1917.
However, being aware that a restriction of the press, even at critical moments, is permissible only within the limits of what is absolutely necessary, the Council of People’s Commissars resolves:
General Provisions on the Press
(1) call for open resistance or insubordination to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government;
(2) sow sedition through demonstrably slanderous distortion of facts;
(3) instigate actions of an obviously criminal, i.e. criminally punishable, nature.
Publications can be proscribed, temporarily or permanently, only by decision of the Council of People’s Commissars.
The present ordinance is of a temporary nature and will be repealed by a special decree as soon as normal conditions of social life set in.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin) Petrograd, October 27, 1917.
There is no way something like that could ever happen again. s/ The Pravda (truth) is that those statist idiots killed millions using tools like this.