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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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Call Clean Condemn Finally House Leftist Propaganda Right Tolerate Tool
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Cease Citizen Property Real State Struggle
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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Fight Fighting Hitler Idiot Mine Remember Text Violence
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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Country Democratic East Elected Election Middle Parliament
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally.
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Ally Country Duty Giving Loyal Prectiable Reliable Show United States
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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Communist Difference Face Former Human Main Member Party Prague Revolution Socialism Spring Velvet
Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.
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Appealing Apply Clever Democracy Election Figure Machine Noble Old Person Sometimes
Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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Communism Communist Country Fall Judging Justice President Term
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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Again Better never Say
Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist.
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Anarchy Continue Country Democratic Desire Freedom Strong Tradition
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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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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