The lie is poison for an enlightened society. Don't be wrong. Whoever lies is intentionally telling the untruth. “Loud lies” - this text from the first WELT speaks of the traumatization of language, words and journalism. Dictatorship means the complete abandonment of any concept of truth, because it needs the lie as an instrument to secure power. The dictum, ennobled as a bon mot, that the first victim in war is the truth, only applies to democracies. In dictatorships the truth dies at the moment when the individual loses the right to free speech and free opinion.