Wrong Side of History

Wrong Side of History

What do Boris Johnson and Erich Honecker have in common?

The Prime Minister has not made the necessary sacrifices for plague-socialism

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Jan 25, 2022
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In The End of History, Francis Fukuyama wrote about how the fall of East Germany was brought about by a curiously familiar emotion – anger towards the hypocritical lifestyle of the leadership.

‘The Honecker regime in East Germany was critically weakened by a series of events in 1989: a refugee crisis, in which hundreds of thousands fled to West Germany, …

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