Beating activist a time honored tradition

Police beats dissentor, 19th Century Russia
I found this drawing in a Russian journal from the mid 1800s. Here a constable keeps the long haired dissenter in line. As people raise their voices all over the world, police appear not to have updated their textbooks to honor democratic rights and liberties.

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  1. In which Russian journal did you find this drawing? I would love to reference it.

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