Although the fear that Western societies are gradually losing many of their freedoms has been around for a long time, in the wake of measures being imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus this fear has skyrocketed. The Czech-Slovak civic organisation Paralelna Polis was established some years ago as a response to this perceived loss of society's freedoms. Jonathan speaks with one of its founders, Pavol Luptak, about how it's possible for a society to lose its freedoms while hardly noticing it, and why legal freedoms don't necessarily equate to actual freedoms.
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