Tag: dictator
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“Shot straight from the rhetorical hip of honesty and humanity, this will probably be one of the most important books published this year.” Launch parties, book reviews, and podcasts! The past few months have been a whirlwind of book-related joy! Of all the book-related excitement, the most thrilling moment was undoubtably the release of my…
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Last week, a friend went to a second-hand book sale and bought me a pamphlet called Speech by G. M. Malenkov to the USSR Supreme Soviet. I have great friends, right? The pamphlet, with an English translation of Malenkov’s speech from April 26, 1954, was published by Soviet News of 3 Rosary Gardens, London – an ironically bourgeois…
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A dictator’s authority is dependent on people believing that that dictator has power and control. For Nicolae Ceaușescu, that illusion was shattered on December 21st, 1989, after he gave what became his last ever speech…
Cambridge Speechwriter 