And she'd just criticized the Soviet government in front of him.
At the same time, international human rights groups were criticizing the government for being too tough.
This gave him many opportunities of criticizing the government then in power.
"If you talk every day online and criticize the government, they don't care," he said.
This gave him a powerful new platform from which to criticize the government.
He became the secretary general and did not hesitate to criticize the government.
Like many other musicians of their age, they often criticized the communist government.
"The politician in Israel who will stop for one day from criticizing his own government has no political future," he said.
However, no such restraint is observed while criticizing the government.
I do not want to criticise or defend the government today.