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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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Country Flag Link Lower Mourning Sure Thought War
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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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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Authoritarian Country People Prefer Regime Society Thinking Today
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
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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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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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Black Color Democratic Equality Notion Reject World
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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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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