Talk of revolution hung in the air. Important Communists came from Pyongyang to deliver impenetrable, jargon-filled harangues, often in Russian, on the principles of Marxism and Leninism. Then followed the parades, the rallies, the self-criticism sessions. A new decree made it a crime for more than five people to meet without permission from the authorities.
That last sentence...ahem, "the right to free assembly"...there's a reason our rights are so relevant to democracy.
