Censorship is not the exact word for understanding Hitler and Stalin country...
When you risk your life composing, like Shostakovitch, you censor yourself FIRST, like he did... You dont wait to be censored....The real censors work less....
And when you are there, Art is already dead anyway....
Censorship is a mild way; between permissivity, and total freedom, and exil and execution....
There is a subtle censorship emerging in America today....No execution of writers for the time being in US. tough , no forced exil of artist also.... No samizdat....Nor any forced emigration of " Einstein" like scientists in mass and hundred of artists and scientists coming from the US to Canada for example, an other country very fond of subtle censorship now....For the time being for sure.... 😁 We dont know tomorrow....
Is a new dictatorship never seen before coming? With new subtle form of censorship: a new king of auto-censorship like Stalin and Hitler never dreamed of ?
Reading Aldous Huxley i think so....I see an economical-technocratical censorship head proposing his horns and workin in a reverse censorship, erasing all boundaries between private life and public life....Tomorrow our toughts will never be ours only....You dont see it? Being alone and because you are alone, you will be the suspect...
I go back to undeclined music.... Too frightened... 😊