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The Red Flag by David Priestland
- The Sunday Times
- Aug 29, 2009
- 1 min read
In the 1980s, the Polish economist Bronislaw Kaminski used to make an observation that confused liberal, leftist and even some conservative intellectuals in the West. Communism, he argued, was not a good idea implemented badly, but a terrible idea implemented surprisingly well.
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