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Cake day: 2022年8月2日

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  • “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for [American corporations] is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.” Wow, great writing!










  • I think another aspect was that the Eastern Bloc was made with the Red Army liberation from the Axis and not from Strong Revolutionary movements. Some were minority groups. A Brazilian historian of the Eastern and Soviet history, Paulo Visentini, said that people supported the new status quo while their material conditions were good after the War. When the difficulties arised, the Ideological framework of socialism wasn’t so developed well enough on these governments. It worsened after Krushchev. Compare this with the burden that Cubans fight for decades.