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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/06/kissingers-adoration-of-the-1815-congress-of-vienna-a-master-key-into-universal-history/
I was not aware of a previous attack on ideas and thoughts. Stumbled upon an essay posted in Strategic Culture about Henry Kissinger.

The Carlsbad Decrees imposed a strict dictatorship over thoughts themselves whereby inquisitors loyal to the Holy Alliance were placed in every university with absolute power to fire professors and expel students who were accused of republican ideals. Anyone who was expelled or fired from a university was prevented from working or studying in any other university in Europe which is why America saw a surge of republican immigrants during this period. All newspapers had to submit their works to official censors who edited all papers until they were deemed acceptable to the elite and all books were subject to censors with thousands of poets and philosophers deemed unprintable. Anyone seeking to read the writings of Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Paine, or Benjamin Franklin would be out of luck.