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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
27th Feb, 2019 02:54:09 AM
Not sure about the history part. We have No Communities Were Harmed for when fictional countries are used as a stand-in, and Fantasy Counterpart Culture for fictional cultures.
Edited by eroock
MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
Certain topics are deemed off-limits or better to be avoided by the Culture Police and The Powers That Be - such as recent deeds by an oppressive regime. However the author wants to bring attention to this. What to do to avoid prison or similar?
Easy. Look for a very similar event occurring in history, maybe in another country, and create about that. Readers will likely pick up on the similarities and censors will too but the latter will be unable to do anything to do about it because the creation isn't literally about the forbidden topic.