Trump also feeds the ethonationalist myth that it was a 1979 papal visit, not a mass trade union, that mortally wounded Communism in Poland
in that narrative, the change in power is real, but the result of a black bargain that let communists plunder the country
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The Czech version would be that only the top figures had changed and just switched the USSR for the EU, but the power structure is same.
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a comparative study of this stuff would be interesting. If only I weren’t a lazy Slav and went to look for it!
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