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The Cold Cost of Freedom: A Witness's Reflection

✍️ A personal musing on truth, propaganda, and forgotten freedoms.

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Gabriel Lovemore
Mar 22, 2025
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Dividing Lines

I was born in France the same year the Berlin Wall was built—a wall that did more than divide East and West. It split history. It fractured truths. It offered the illusion that freedom was a Western invention and tyranny a uniquely Eastern affliction. And that illusion persists to this day.

Let’s remember: both Paris and Moscow are in Europe

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