Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End
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#2I'm not sure that transition of power is a 'taboo': Yekaterina Shulman have been discussing this topic for a few years for a wide popular audience. It's just that there was never any satisfactory answer to that one.
With regards to dictators of Spain, Portugal and Greece. These countries could get rid of autocrats and fall back to Europe's safety net. But in case of Russia it is not an option, as nobody wants Russia and especially the EU, which was mostly built on the basis of confrontation with Russia. There's nowhere that Russia could 'return' to.
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#3If this is true, it suggests many Russians actually want their country to become a democracy:
> Objectively — though it’s awkward to say — the book has become a bit of a phenomenon. But the book, “The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Ended”, is not about Russia or Vladimir Putin. It’s about three dictatorships — those of Francisco Franco in Spain, Antonio Salazar in Portugal and the colonels in Greece — and how those countries became democracies, returning to the global fold. A large number of Russians haven’t suddenly taken an interest in the history of 20th-century Southern Europe. Rather, discussions of the book have common themes: How do prolonged right-wing dictatorships end? And can Russia become a democracy?
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#4I'm not sure that transition of power is a 'taboo': Yekaterina Shulman have been discussing this topic for a few years for a wide popular audience. It's just that there was never any satisfactory answer to that one. With regards to dictators of Spain, Portugal and Greece. These countries could get rid of autocrats and fall back to Europe's safety net. But in case of Russia it is not an option, as nobody wants Russia…
Ekaterina Schulmann seems to be more correct spelling, according to her webpage at Robert Bosch Academy website.
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#5It looks like this is a NYT opinion piece republished in someone's blog?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/opinion/russia-putin-dict...
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#6I'm not sure that transition of power is a 'taboo': Yekaterina Shulman have been discussing this topic for a few years for a wide popular audience. It's just that there was never any satisfactory answer to that one. With regards to dictators of Spain, Portugal and Greece. These countries could get rid of autocrats and fall back to Europe's safety net. But in case of Russia it is not an option, as nobody wants Russia…
Really? India and China seem to be taking up the slack ...
Re: Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End
#7It looks like this is a NYT opinion piece republished in someone's blog? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/opinion/russia-putin-dict...
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#8It looks like this is a NYT opinion piece republished in someone's blog? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/opinion/russia-putin-dict...
"The press review "Tribuna Libre" is part of the educational and research project of the non-profit Cultural Association "Almendrón". It is a virtual newspaper library, with free access, which offers the full text of the main opinion articles published in various media."
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#9I'm not sure that transition of power is a 'taboo': Yekaterina Shulman have been discussing this topic for a few years for a wide popular audience. It's just that there was never any satisfactory answer to that one. With regards to dictators of Spain, Portugal and Greece. These countries could get rid of autocrats and fall back to Europe's safety net. But in case of Russia it is not an option, as nobody wants Russia…
> especially the EU, which was mostly built on the basis of confrontation with Russia
The EU was build to avoid another World War were Germany/UK/France start fighting. Once all European countries are tied economically for any of them to benefit of starting a war is very difficult.
And, of course, there is also the idea that a bigger economic area will create more opportunities and make Europe more competitive.
If anything projects like Nordstream prove that countries inside the EU were willing to increase their ties with Russia. If Russia had not initiated another war, Crimea was given a pass, there will be closer ties.
Russia has nobody else to blame from breaking ties with Europe but themselves.
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#10Russians don't need a book, they need Molotov cocktails. They are much more effective when thrown at the regime's oppressive forces.