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The twentieth century clearly shows that totalitarianism is not a solution to any problem, but a social ill of the most terrific kind. In this video we are going to explore what is called the forward escape from the control of the cruel and twisted minds would be totalitarians. We will contrast it with two other ways to escape from the hardships of living through an attempted totalitarian takeover: the backward escape and the physical escape.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could have been done to prevent it, wrote the following: “If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. . .we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! … We purely and simply deserved everything that […]

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