CBC Radio: Ideas on "Illiberal Democracy"

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Ideas: Gelber Prize winners blame 'politics of imitation' for extremism in Central Europe
From the fall of the Wall to this pandemic era, experts look at the legacy of ill-fitting political systems

I'm going to listen to this for an hour.

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Oooh, I'm about to listen to my friend's radio show now, but this sounds relevant to my interests.

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Please let me know what you think of it once you've listened to it yourself...?

[sabotabby]

Oooh, it was pretty fascinating. I definitely want to read their book now.

There's so many complexities about Eastern Europe that I think Westerners don't get (and that I only kindasorta get by dint of having spent some time there and through friends). And of course I remember living through 1989 and 1991 and the "end of history." Which obviously hasn't panned out, since as it turns out communist China and autocratic Russia are much better at capitalism than the Americans are.