Quote:It was terrible. They were denied the opportunity to slaughter each other because the Soviets were slaughtering them and they were slaughtering the Soviets.
Glorifying communist Afghanistan is so bad. The country was actually experiencing very positive development for a few decades. The country was slowly being reformed. That was untill socialists had to provoke the conservative and rural majority of the population into civil war.
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
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- John Stuart Mill
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted June 20, 2013 01:18 AM
Interesting article. I am not a Kemalist, but to be fair I have to say the analogy is a little far stretched. Mustafa Kemal ruled during the 1920's and 1930's and back then the authoritarian leader was the norm. It was considered a sign of strength and dedication. One can say Kemalism lead to an authoritarian tradition beyond the man's intentions and that would be right. Still, I wouldn't identify it as a doctrine that now Erdogan suffers himself, as if he got the Kemalist bite and turned into a zombie himself. Erdogan is Erdogan not because of some tradition but mainly because of his own character flaws.
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posted June 13, 2013 04:16 PM
