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most assumed that peace would prove durable. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are

dom House, 2014), https://freedomhouse.org/sites/ default/files/Freedom%20in%20the%20World%202014%20Booklet.pdf. 7. “Chinas Internet: A Giant Cage,” Economist, April 6, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21574628-internet- was-expected-help-democratise-china-instead-it-has-enabled. 8. Jess

EMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stalin's Great Terror and its decimation of the military

commentisfree/2014/nov/07/viadimir-putin-defended-nazi-soviet-pact-west-world-war-two; Tom Parfitt, ‘Vladimir Putin Says There Was Nothing Wrong with Soviet Union's Pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany,” Telegraph, November 6, 2014, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11213255/Vladimir-Putin

rea of to the east of Baikal become the territory of Russia and from then on Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and other points are the territory of the Soviet Union. We have not yet requested settling this account!" The publisher of the article writes that Mao makes this claim based on "the fact that many hundred

rt was, ironically, financed by the Imperial Japanese Army. vii "Inner Mongolia has become China's model of assimilation" by Hohhot and West Ujimqin, The Economist, 1 June 2017, http://www.economist.com/news/china/21722853-chinese-mongolians-are-still-asserting-their- identity-inner-mongolia-has-become-chinas-mo

arresting each others' children. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country. He mused that

lear mission continually changed. The ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were evidence enough that the United States could destroy cities, but deterring the Soviet Union was a far greater challenge. If the Soviets had invaded Western Europe, for example, U.S. bombers would have had to penetrate alerted Soviet air defe

arresting each others' children. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country. He mused that

lear mission continually changed. The ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were evidence enough that the United States could destroy cities, but deterring the Soviet Union was a far greater challenge. If the Soviets had invaded Western Europe, for example, U.S. bombers would have had to penetrate alerted Soviet air defe

ened form of capitalism, that capitalism really gave us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism reall

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa- Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha

lly gave HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029043 --- PAGE BREAK --- us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism reall

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa - Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha

ened form of capitalism, that capitalism really gave us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism reall

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa - Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha