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Living Behind the Iron Curtain

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Importance of Open Dialogue in a Democracy

In Albania it was normal to talk about very big political questions and geopolitics. In the West, when I moved outside Albania  it seemed almost not polite to ask someone who do you vote for? The private becomes so political in some societies because there is a system of sanctions. It's more meritocratic than the West but yet what it couldn't do was renew itself - that's what it feels like.

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