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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

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This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.
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A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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I can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
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