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This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
A second but simultaneous expansion of the Cold War occurred in East Asia, where on October 1, 1949—a week after Truman’s announcement of the Soviet atomic bomb—a victorious Mao Zedong proclaimed the formation of the People’s Republic of China
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Like the Palestinians, the Kurds are a people without a state. After World War I, the colonial powers of Britain and France ignored their claim to independence. Instead they were divided across four nations: Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
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