European democracies collapsed into and fascism in the 1920s and '30s. The communist Soviet Union… — Timothy Snyder
European democracies collapsed into and fascism in the 1920s and '30s. The communist Soviet Union, established in 1922, extended its model into Europe in the 1940s. ...[S]ocieties can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits...
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