He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

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The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary...

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In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any...

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The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and...

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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like...

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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text...

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The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and...

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We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule...

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing...

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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose...

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Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the...

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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian...

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian...

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Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but...