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5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition

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The Past Is Never Dead, It's Not Even Past

The chinese still attempting to live down humiliations they suffered in the nineteenth century. The germans, up until nine days ago, almost neutral. They'd almost become what stahlen failed to achieve. And i keep thinking of william faulkner's famous line, the past is never dead. It's not even past. How is it that we poor, feeble creatures, we human beings, find ourselves so enthrall to the past?

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