ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The History of the Soviet Union
In the 70s, some kind of economic stagnation of communist regime in Eastern Europe started. They tried to gain supplementary legitimacy by reinterpreting and appropriating their own nationalist past. The key element in this modern museum in this re-appropriating the past was Martin Luther. All of a sudden, he was big progressive son of our people. And I remember seeing in the early 80s, they did celebrating his,. I don't know, 400, I don’t know what anniversary I don's know, even a walk of life, that probably death. But it's very interesting how the darkest Khrushchev's power in KGB already started to support this ever-Asian extreme
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