People want to compare our situation to 1939 Germany, bc it lets us think, We won! We beat the bad guys! This more accurate comparison is terrifying to us, bc 25 years later, Russia is still in the thrall of Putin.
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Maurice J. Casey
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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