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r the West to Wake Up,' Guardian, November 7,2014. https:// Tom Parfitt, 'Vladimir Putin Says There Was Nothing Wrong with Soviet Union's Pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany" Telegraph, November 6, 2014, ftftp://www.telegraphco.uk/newstworldnews/y_ladimit.putin/11213255Nladimir-Pu in.says-there.was-nothintwr

and persecution. They are frequent- ly jailed on trumped-up charges of defamation, tax fraud, or drug trafficking, among others. 12 EFTA00804736 Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially t

ching only very lightly on his later collaboration with the Nazis, which seems to be deplorable in his eyes mostly because his "identification with Hitler's Germany had allowed these Zionists to reframe their own role in Palestine and on the world stage to avoid any taint of imperialism or settler co

in countries that will hold free and fair elections this year, democracy's global advance has come to a halt, and may even have gone into reverse. Freedom House reckons that 2013 was the eighth consecutive year in which global freedom declined, and that its forward march peaked around the beginning of the c

istorians and politicians alike have held up the Munich agreement as a symbol of all that went wrong due to the European democracies’ appeasement of Hitler.” Putin has also justified the Hitler-Stalin pact on the grounds that it kept the Soviet Union out of war for a time and was in keeping with the amo

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tions with other regional states. Turkey similarly claimed a policy of “zero problems” with its neighbors in the period before the Syrian civil war. Freedom House's Tyler Roylance has described a “common set of concessions" that 21st-century au- thoritarians made to the prevailing democratic ethos in the wake of

gle binational state of Jews and Palestinians and suggested a Jewish state was anachronistic. The calls to his office began — "Tell Tony Judt this is Hitler calling and he says, 'Congratulations. Years later, an event featuring Judt at the Polish Consulate got canceled at the last minute after its organiz

led, but regressed as well. Reversals in civil liberties and political rights caused Jordan to lose significant international standing. In the annual Freedom House rankings, Jordan declined from a rank of 4 in 2001 (partly free) on a scale of 1 to 7 (1 being most free) to a rank of 6 (not free) in 2010. Corrupti