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Discussion "Facing Our Past: Lithuanians, Germans, and Jews"
youtube.comReich. Even after the French surrender Stalin remained anxious to avoid provocation of his dangerous neighbour, and constructed no major fortifications on his western frontier. Instead, he exploited the chaos of the moment to increase his own territorial gains. While the eyes of the world were fixed on France, he annexed the Baltic states, where in
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History, Iris said, is the constant struggle to accumulate power over others.
Yanis Varoufakis • Another Now
However, since the global financial crisis of 2008 people all over the world have become increasingly disillusioned with the liberal story. Walls and firewalls are back in vogue. Resistance to immigration and to trade agreements is mounting. Ostensibly democratic governments undermine the independence of the judiciary system, restrict the freedom
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How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future
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Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures | Abby Smith Rumsey
youtu.bethe cheapest option in Africa or Latin America. No democratic government should ever assume that arguments for democracy or for the rule of law are somehow obvious or self-evident. Authoritarian narratives are designed to undermine the innate appeal of those ideas, to characterize dictatorship as stable and democracy as chaotic. Democratic media,
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