The idea that Britain had less historical anguish after the war than other combatants is at one level obvious – Britain was a victor power, experienced no shift to fascism or communism, ruled a global empire and suffered less than other economies from the prolonged crises of the early 1920s and the slump.
The West did not prevail over a corrosive ideology by invading and occupying the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe or the dozens of nations where communism ruled.
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Rich Karlgaard seems to equate socialism with communism (Digital Rules, "Why Isn't Socialism Dead?" June 5).
Mr Kim draws on three separate belief systems to buttress his rule: communism, Confucianism and ancient Korean shamanism.
And that commitment, including the painful peg to the euro, is rooted in the overarching national mission that has driven and united this small Baltic state since the collapse of the Soviet Union — to escape the legacy of communism and Russian rule and to build a modern, democratic, capitalist nation.
All this was made possible only by an improbable series of events so ill foreseen by the myopic peacemakers in Paris: the arrival of a Polish pope as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in October 1978; the arrival of a reformist Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev; and, of course, the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the final symbolic end to communism and Soviet rule in Eastern Europe.
After fleeing the oppressive rule of Communism in his native Poland in 1961, Mr. Polanski made two of his most powerful films, "Repulsion" and "Cul-de-Sac".
The psychopathic national socialism of Nazi Germany, communism of Stalinist Soviet rule and fascism of imperial Japan (whose oppressive bureaucratic machinery has survived well into the modern era) surely bear Weber out.
