The former Soviet empire is at risk of going backwards:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning about new attempts by oppressive governments to "re-Sovietize" much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
It isn't just the Arab world that has had promises of freedom seem to fade in the face of the will to oppress and the joy of ordering people about.
Freedom isn't free, as the expression goes. And nobody is immune to the loss of individual freedom.
