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Book cover for How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History: The Hinge Factor
A great blunder in a minor battle can produce the effect that carries on for centuries. Human history has always been a web of dramas, where intelligence can discern nothing. It ends mostly in utter chaos.
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“I think television with two channels - one on a political speech, on the other a Russian film -- must be the cheapest and most inhuman means to effectively make people stupid.”
Iva Pekárková, Truck Stop Rainbows

Anne Applebaum
“Since then, many have tried to describe what it feels like to endure the disintegration of one’s entire civilization, to watch the buildings and landscapes of one’s childhood collapse, to understand that the moral world of one’s parents and teachers no longer exists and that one’s respected national leaders have failed.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

Anne Applebaum
“A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

Anna Reid
“By choosing Christianity rather than Islam, Volodymyr cast Rus’s ambitions for ever in Europe rather than Asia, and by taking Christianity from Byzantium rather than Rome he bound the future Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians together in Orthodoxy, fatally dividing them from their Catholic neighbours the Poles.”
Anna Reid, Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

Douglas Murray
“If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.”
Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

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