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Afghanistan
Pepper Martin for USN&WR / Library of Congress
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1959: Martin notes, "In Afghanistan, however, the discontented keep quiet. This country has never known anything except autocracy. Even now, an estimated 20,000 policemen keep the people well under control and the government monopolizes all the channels of information."
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