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The rise of a new individualism

Rebuilders

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

The Bloomsbury set had this vision of, you know, they were all sleeping around with each other. In many ways, they're sort of sexual ethics look a lot what is dominant now. Keynes would change his idea on tariffs, but it's just worth marking the fact that early on this vision of free trade in the world and free love was actually linked to part of their vision. And also Soviet Union. You think what also changes when the Soviet Union falls was before that half the world was divided between communism and liberal democracies. So once that border is erased, you've got all these new creation of these countries,. Central Asia, Baltics, Ukraine, et cetera

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