(DOWNLOAD) "Free World Colossus: In the New Cold war, The U.S. is the Revolutionary Force (Ideas)" by The American Conservative * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Free World Colossus: In the New Cold war, The U.S. is the Revolutionary Force (Ideas)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S angry reaction to Russia's intervention in South Ossetia was of a piece with its harsh criticism of Vladimir Putin, the popular leader who has brought a measure of order and stability to a country that endured 74 years of communist misrule. The president and his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, are clearly offended by Putin's scarcely disguised view that democracy in Russia cannot mean what it has come to mean in the United States and Europe. It disturbs them that he exercises a personal authority greater than that which is his by virtue of his offices--that he bears, as a political figure, some resemblance to Charles de Gaulle, never a hero to democrats. One should note that it was precisely the semi-authoritarianism of the Putin government that enlisted the support of the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. "It is not authoritarianism itself that is intolerable," the courageous Russian wrote in his 1973 Letter to the Soviet Leaders, "but the ideological lies that are daily foisted upon us." Not authoritarianism, then, but ideological tyranny was the enemy.