The Myth of Normal (Robert Wright & Gabor Maté)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The First of a Series of Disillusionments
When you were 11 or 12, the Soviets moved into Hungary forcefully. And all of a sudden my heroes became villains. So that's the first of a series of disillusionments that they went through on the political scale. The second was when there was a rebellion against that again, revolution in October 56. All of a sudden the Soviet Army that has saved my life the liturgy have saved my life. That's their ideology I bought into. But it wasn't enough to keep me from going up in Congress hungry and getting killed by Stalinist soldiers who came back within a week after an uprising.
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