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@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: @nrdufourNicolas Dufour If you look at the books by well-known writer Timothy Snyder, often interviewed and quoted, you can see the Red Scare which is still alive in the USA. Snyder views, in one sentence, both fascism and communism as the big danger and I guess it all indeed has to do with Stalin history. However, did the USSR ever really implemented communism in its history ? And what are the differences between communism and socialism ? And what about social democrats ? The USA deserves public healthcare like in other countries.

Until recently, we Americans had convinced ourselves that there was nothing in the future but more of the same. The seemingly distant traumas of fascism, Nazism, and communism seemed to be receding into irrelevance. We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe came to an end in 1989–91, we imbibed the myth of an “end of history.” In doing so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/11/items/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-by-timothy-snyder-z-lib.org/On%20Tyranny%20Twenty%20Lessons%20from%20the%20Twentieth%20Century%20by%20Timothy%20Snyder%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf
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