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“The reality of Russia in 2025 is when, sitting in a caged aquarium in a courtroom, you learn from lawyers about the detention of another of your party members on charges of the same unconstitutional article of the Criminal Code under which you yourself are accused...
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“Wearing a wide bolivar. On August 7, the United States increased the reward to $50 million for information that could lead to the capture of Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela...
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“About dragons and elephants. No, this text is not about the SCO summit that took place in late August - early September and the meeting between Xi and Modi at it...
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“I don’t want to once again start a discussion about whether it makes sense for the opposition to take part in the elections in their current state...
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“Concluding the conversation about Speer’s memoirs that I read (started here and continued here ), I will cite two interesting passages from them concerning the issue of so-called “miracle weapons” or “weapons of retribution.” “As we reduced the production of certain types of weapons and even completely stopped some development work, Hitler more and more actively and confidently instilled in the generals and high-ranking officials of the state and party apparatus the hope of creating a new weapon that would supposedly decide the outcome of the war...
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"Continuing what we started earlier conversation about the memoirs of Albert Speer, I’ll write about one concept that came to mind while reading...
Pockets of Efficiency and Technocrats
"Continuing the conversation started earlier about the memoirs of Albert Speer, I will write about one concept that came to my mind while reading. This concept - the so-called 'pockets of efficiency' - is quite closely related to technocrats in the service of dictators."
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“Back in May, I read a book of memoirs by Albert Speer, which somehow mysteriously ended up in the library of the Kresty pre-trial detention center...
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“I recently read Evgenia Ginzburg’s book “Steep Route.” I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in reading an eyewitness account of Stalin’s repressions...
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“It seems that I already mentioned in passing that from the prison library I was unexpectedly given a collection of articles by Lunacharsky, Trotsky and Radek, published during perestroika...
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