Cracked: 5 Shockingly Progressive Policies From Insane Dictatorships
What? Don't tell me you're afraid of a bit of cognitive dissonance.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking in black-and-white terms about foreign countries. America is a free country, so we assume that all these repressive dictatorships must be like America in Opposite World, restricting every freedom they can get their hands on. But it’s not that simple. We don’t want to take away from the fact that a lot of these places are hellish nightmares, but some of them actually have (or had) policies even more progressive than those in the West. For example …
So wtf is our excuse?