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Khrushchev wielded a far greater capacity for destruction than they ever did, but he behaved with far less responsibility. He was like a petulant child playing with a loaded gun.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
Albania became the ultimate closed state, with no official contact with either the United States or the Soviet Union, and virtually no cultural or economic contact with the rest of Europe.
Eastern Europe!
Tomek E. Jankowski
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