In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

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Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking...

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

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

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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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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 knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would...

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There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand...

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

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the...

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

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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I...

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

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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a...

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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is...

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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it...

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

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

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

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire...

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire...