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The less oppressive your oppressive regime, goes the argument, the more easily its oppression can be documented, and vice-versa. Thus the mildest oppression is always the best publicized, and the most severe is always the least publicized. I find that this thesis does not always hold—at least, its usual corollary doesn’t: namely, that Communist regimes are always both the most oppressive and the least publicized. I doubt that we really know less about oppression in Cuba than about oppression in Haiti, or less about Cambodia than about the Philippines.

I pass over Worldview, excellent though it is, and other general journals of religion and politics, in order to consider three publications that deal with religion in the Communist world exprofesso. Two of them come from the Center for-the Study of Religion and Communism (Keston College, Keston, Kent BR2 6BA, England). Michael Bourdeaux, animating spirit of Keston College, writes:

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The less oppressive your oppressive regime, goes the argument, the more easily its oppression can be documented, and vice-versa. Thus the mildest oppression is always the best publicized, and the most severe is always the least publicized. I find that this thesis does not always hold—at least, its usual corollary doesn’t: namely, that Communist regimes are always both the most oppressive and the least publicized. I doubt that we really know less about oppression in Cuba than about oppression in Haiti, or less about Cambodia than about the Philippines.

I pass over Worldview, excellent though it is, and other general journals of religion and politics, in order to consider three publications that deal with religion in the Communist world exprofesso. Two of them come from the Center for-the Study of Religion and Communism (Keston College, Keston, Kent BR2 6BA, England). Michael Bourdeaux, animating spirit of Keston College, writes: