In 1936, Stalin oversaw the introduction of a new constitution in the USSR, guaranteeing freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to demonstrate in the streets. By 1937, his regime was executing perhaps one thousand people every day. Sometimes the finest words are nothing more than words. So it is, according to the more radical of the subjectivists, with the iron rule. It is the Soviet constitution, the Marlboro Man, Arbeit macht frei.
