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Freedom, by Dallas McCord Reynolds
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Title: Freedom
Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds
Illustrator: Schoenherr
Release Date: October 26, 2009 [EBook #30338]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction February 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
FREEDOM
by MACK REYNOLDS
Illustrated by Schoenherr
Freedom is a very dangerous thing indeed. It is so catching--like a plague--even the doctors get it.
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Colonel Ilya Simonov tooled his Zil aircushion convertible along the edge of Red Square, turned right immediately beyond St. Basil's Cathedral, crossed the Moscow River by the Moskvocetski Bridge and debouched into the heavy, and largely automated traffic of Pyarnikskaya. At Dobryninskaya Square he turned west to Gorki Park which he paralleled on Kaluga until he reached the old baroque palace which housed the Ministry.
There were no flags, no signs, nothing to indicate the present nature of the aged Czarist building.
He left the