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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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Dec 19, 2016
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Reading for the 2nd time. Most recently started February 13, 2017.
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“Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all memorialisation incomplete. Its inherent implausibility—the sheer difficulty of conceiving of it in calm retrospect—opens the door to diminution and even denial. Impossible to remember as it truly was, it is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't.”
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
“Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today's Euro-idealists. It was the insecure child of anxiety.”
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
― Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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December 19, 2016
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February 13, 2017
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September 10, 2017
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"So the 70s sowed the seed of Brexit ,and neoliberalism.
"But in the circumstances of the later 1970s, a government in London—or Stockholm, or Rome—facing intractable unemployment, or failing industries, or inflationary wage demands, could point helplessly at the terms of an IMF loan, or the rigours of pre-negotiated intra-European exchange rates, and disclaim liability.""
"But in the circumstances of the later 1970s, a government in London—or Stockholm, or Rome—facing intractable unemployment, or failing industries, or inflationary wage demands, could point helplessly at the terms of an IMF loan, or the rigours of pre-negotiated intra-European exchange rates, and disclaim liability.""
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"Very surprised to learn of the highly tumultuous past of Italy in the 70s. So at their peak, the Red Brigade could kidnapped, and later murdered, a former prime minister in the capital (in broad daylight), judges in their court and head of anti-terror unit at his home(which is not even in Italy).
And they were able to do they because they had enormous support from the public...?"
And they were able to do they because they had enormous support from the public...?"
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