Michael Lipkin
Feb 10, 2022

With the end of the cold war western elites felt free to indulge themselves - just a guess

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That is an often tried guess but the real deciders never believed in the Cold War that much : absolutely nobody well informed believed in the reality of a Communist utopia beyond the Iron curtain and right from before WWII the capitalistic ruling…