The painting entitled ’Liberty Leading the People’ by the French painter Eugène Delacroix is an icon of the (French) freedom movement. It deals with the fights on the barricades in the 1830 July Revolution in Paris - a brief but intense and violent conflict between citizens and the authorities.
Why restrictions can make sense - a suggestion. The painting entitled 'Liberty Leading the People' by the French painter Eugène Delacroix is an icon of the (French) freedom movement. It deals with the fights on the barricades in the 1830 July Revolution in Paris - a brief but intense and violent conflict between citizens and the authorities. Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The demonstrators in the former East Germany (GDR) protested in favour of it, the singer Marius Müller-Westernhagen sang about it, and former German President Joachim Gauck preaches it: freedom. According to the "Civil Society Atlas" published by the Organisation "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World"), only 14 percent of the world's population were living in freedom in 2023 - in other words, were able to express their opinions freely, enjoy right of assembly or fight against injustice. Freedom House, an NGO, comes to the conclusion in its report entitled "Freedom of the World 2022" that the degree of freedom worldwide has declined for the 17 time in a row. Reading the results of the surveys, it must be concluded that freedom is an endangered commodity.
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