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Russia and Ukraine: One Year On

Intelligence Squared

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The End of History Would Be Communism, You Know?

I did not predict that everybody would end up being a peaceful, you know, democracy. There is this larger process of modernization that is valuable. I think we've got a lunatic running this country right now who is just fixated on what he regards as an historical injustice. The shock of losing an empire was deeply traumatizing to a lot of people shouldn't have been.

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