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87 relations: Abstract expressionism, African Writers Conference, American Committee for Cultural Freedom, American Enterprise Institute, Anti-Stalinist left, Arthur Koestler, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Bandung Conference, Big Brother Movement, Birgitta Stenberg, Brian Crozier, CCF, Christopher Hollis, CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Committee for Cultural Freedom, Committee for the Free World, Daniel Bell, Demas Nwoko, Dwight Macdonald, Encounter (magazine), Ștefan Baciu, FORVM, François Bondy, Frances Stonor Saunders, Franz Borkenau, History of propaganda, Hoang Van Chi, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ignazio Silone, Information Research Department, Ingemar Hedenius, International Association, International Commission of Jurists, Irving Brown, Irving Kristol, Jackson Pollock, Jacques Maritain, James Currey, James Laughlin, Jaya Prakhash Narayan, John Berger, John Dewey, John Kerr (governor-general), Julián Gorkin, Keith Botsford, Konstanty Jeleński, Lancelot Ribeiro, László Ladányi, Lene Berg, List of Estonian Americans, ..., Margarete Buber-Neumann, Melvin J. Lasky, Michael Josselson, Minerva (disambiguation), Minerva (Springer journal), Mundo Nuevo, National Student Association, Neil McInnes (1924–2017), New Left, Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair, Nicolas Nabokov, Open Society Foundations, Operation Mockingbird, Pablo Neruda, Partisan Review, Peter Coleman, Politics (1940s magazine), Psychological Operations (United States), Quadrant (magazine), Richard Krygier, Richard Wright (author), Robie Macauley, Shepard Stone, Sidney Hook, Smart power, Soviet influence on the peace movement, Stephen Spender, The China Quarterly, The Color Curtain, The Oasis (novel), The Paris Review, Transition Magazine, Ture Nerman, Who Paid the Piper?, William O. Stanley, World Peace Council, 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Expand index (37 more) »
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.
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African Writers Conference
On 1 June 1962, Makerere University.
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American Committee for Cultural Freedom
The American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF) was the U.S. affiliate of the anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).
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American Enterprise Institute
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. which researches government, politics, economics and social welfare.
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Anti-Stalinist left
The anti-Stalinist left comprises various kinds of left-wing politics critical of Joseph Stalin, of Stalinism as a political philosophy, and of the actual system of governance Stalin implemented as dictator of the Soviet Union.
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Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.
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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Badr Shakir al Sayyab (بدر شاكر السياب) (Jaykur, near Basra December 24, 1926 – Kuwait 24 December 1964) was a leading Iraqi poet, well known throughout the Arab world and one of the most influential Arab poets of all time.
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Bandung Conference
The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference—also known as the Bandung Conference (Konferensi Asia-Afrika)—was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on April 18–24, 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia.
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Big Brother Movement
The Big Brother Movement was a youth migration program ran by a non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia.
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Birgitta Stenberg
Birgitta Stenberg (26 April 1932 – 23 August 2014) was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator.
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Brian Crozier
Brian Rossiter Crozier (4 August 1918 in Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland – 4 August 2012) was a historian, strategist and journalist.
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CCF
CCF can refer to.
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Christopher Hollis
Maurice Christopher Hollis, known as Christopher Hollis (2 December 1902 – 5 May 1977) was a British schoolmaster, university teacher, author and Conservative politician.
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CIA and the Cultural Cold War
In addition to being a political and economic battle, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was a clash of cultures.
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Committee for Cultural Freedom
The Committee for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an American political organization active from 1939 to 1951 which advocated opposition to the totalitarianism of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in foreign affairs, and promoted pro-democratic reforms in public and private institutions domestically.
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Committee for the Free World
The Committee for the Free World was a neoconservative anti-Communist think tank in the United States.
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Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.
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Demas Nwoko
Demas Nwoko (born 1935) is a Nigerian artist, protean designer, architect and master builder.
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Dwight Macdonald
Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was a U.S. writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher, and political radical.
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Encounter (magazine)
Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol.
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Ștefan Baciu
Ștefan Aurel Baciu (Estêvão Baciu, Esteban Baciu; October 29, 1918 – January 6, 1993) was a Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic who lived his later life in Hawaii.
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FORVM
FORVM was an Austrian cultural and political magazine, published in Vienna from 1954 till 1995, founded by Friedrich Hansen-Loeve, Felix Hubalek, Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Friedrich Torberg with the financial and logistical support of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).
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François Bondy
François Bondy (born in Berlin, 1 January 1915, died in Zurich on 27 May 2003) was a Swiss journalist and novelist.
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Frances Stonor Saunders
Frances Hélène Jeanne Stonor Saunders (born 14 April 1966) is a British journalist and historian.
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Franz Borkenau
Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 – May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer and publicist.
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History of propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (perhaps lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented.
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Hoang Van Chi
Hoàng Văn Chí (1 October 1913 in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam, French Indochina – 6 July 1988 in Bowie, Maryland, United States) was one of the first Vietnamese political writers, a prominent intellectual who was an opponent of colonialism and later of communism in Vietnam.
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003), was a British historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany.
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Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, a political leader, Italian novelist, and short-story writer, world famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels.
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Information Research Department
The Information Research Department, founded in 1948 by Christopher Mayhew MP, was a department of the British Foreign Office set up to counter Soviet propaganda and infiltration, particularly amongst the western labour movement.
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Ingemar Hedenius
Per Arvid Ingemar Hedenius (5 April 1908 – 30 April 1982) was a Swedish philosopher.
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International Association
International Association may refer to.
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International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organization.
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Irving Brown
Irving Brown (Bronx, October 5, 1911 – Paris, July 14, 1989) was an American trades-unionist, member of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and then of the AFL-CIO, who played an important role in Western Europe and in Africa, during the Cold War, in supporting splits among trade-unions in order to counter Communist influence.
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Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American journalist who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism".
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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
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Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher.
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James Currey
James Currey is an academic publisher specialising on Africa.
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James Laughlin
James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.
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Jaya Prakhash Narayan
Jaya Prakhash Narayan was a student of Gandhi, who founded the Congress of Cultural Freedom in India.
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John Berger
John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.
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John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
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John Kerr (governor-general)
Sir John Robert Kerr, (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was the 18th Governor-General of Australia.
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Julián Gorkin
Julián Gómez García-Ribera, better known as Julián Gorkin (January 1901, Benifairó de les Valls - 8 August 1987, Paris) was a Spanish revolutionary socialist, and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War.
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Keith Botsford
Keith Botsford (born March 29, 1928, in Brussels, Belgium) is an American/European writer, Professor Emeritus at Boston University and current editor of News from the Republic of Letters.
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Konstanty Jeleński
Konstanty Aleksander Jeleński (January 2, 1922 - May 4, 1987) was a Polish essayist.
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Lancelot Ribeiro
Lancelot Ribeiro (born 1933, died 2010 London) was an Indian modern artist.
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László Ladányi
László Ladányi (October 24, 1907 in Budapest – January 8, 1992 in Tel-Aviv) was a poet, author, dramatist and reporter.
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Lene Berg
Lene Berg (born 1965 in Oslo) is a Norwegian film director and artist, who works in Oslo and Berlin.
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List of Estonian Americans
This is a list of notable Estonian-Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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Margarete Buber-Neumann
Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901–1989), a German communist, wrote the memoir Under Two Dictators about her imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and testified in the so-called "trial of the century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France.
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Melvin J. Lasky
Melvin Jonah Lasky (15 January 1920 – 19 May 2004) was an American journalist, intellectual, and member of the anti-Communist left.
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Michael Josselson
Michael Josselson (2 March 1908, Tartu, Estonia – 7 January 1978, Geneva, Switzerland) was a CIA agent.
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Minerva (disambiguation)
Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom.
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Minerva (Springer journal)
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the sociological study of scientific knowledge and research.
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Mundo Nuevo
Mundo Nuevo (1966–1971, Spanish for "the New World") was an influential Spanish-language periodical, being a monthly revista de cultura (literary magazine) dedicated to new Latin American literature.
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National Student Association
The United States National Student Association (NSA) was a confederation of college and university student governments that was in operation from 1947 to 1978.
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Neil McInnes (1924–2017)
Neil McInnes (6 September 1924 – 28 April 2017) was an Australian intellectual, journalist and senior public servant.
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New Left
The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.
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Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair
The Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair (Phong Trào Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm) was a cultural-political movement in North Vietnam in the late 1950s.
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Nicolas Nabokov
Nicolas Nabokov (Николай Дмитриевич Набоков; – 6 April 1978) was a Russian-born composer, writer, and cultural figure.
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Open Society Foundations
Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.
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Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird was an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes.
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Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.
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Partisan Review
Partisan Review (PR) was a small circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.
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Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (born 15 December 1928) is an Australian writer and former politician.
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Politics (1940s magazine)
Politics, stylized as politics, was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949.
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Psychological Operations (United States)
Psychological operations (PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
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Quadrant (magazine)
Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal.
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Richard Krygier
Henry Richard Krygier OBE (19171986), was a Polish-born Jewish Australian anti-communist publisher and journalist, and a founder of Quadrant magazine.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Robie Macauley
Robie Mayhew Macauley (May 31, 1919 – November 20, 1995) was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.
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Shepard Stone
Shepard Stone (March 31, 1908 - May 4, 1990) was an American journalist and foundation administrator.
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Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of the Pragmatist school known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics.
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Smart power
In international relations, the term smart power refers to the combination of hard power and soft power strategies.
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Soviet influence on the peace movement
During the Cold War (1947–1991), when the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in an arms race, the Soviet Union promoted its foreign policy through the World Peace Council and other front organizations.
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Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.
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The China Quarterly
The China Quarterly (CQ) is a British double-blind peer-reviewed (the highest international standard) academic journal which was established in 1960 and focuses on all aspects of contemporary China and Taiwan.
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The Color Curtain
African-American author Richard Wright's book The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956) is based on his impressions and analysis of the postcolonial Asian-African Conference, which was a gathering of representatives from 29 independent Asian and African countries, held in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, April 18–24, 1955.
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The Oasis (novel)
The Oasis is a short satirical novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. Published by Random House in 1949, it is McCarthy’s second novel.
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The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
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Transition Magazine
Transition Magazine established in 1961 by Rajat Neogy was published from 1961 to 1976 on the African continent and since 1991 in the United States.
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Ture Nerman
Ture Nerman (18 May 1886, Norrköping – 7 October 1969) was a Swedish socialist.
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Who Paid the Piper?
Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (U.S. title The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters) is a 1999 book by Frances Stonor Saunders.
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William O. Stanley
William Oliver Stanley, Jr. is a former professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the Urbana College of Education.
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World Peace Council
The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination.
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1975 Australian constitutional crisis
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom
