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| Communism | Havel | Krastev I 24 Communism/Havel/Krastev: described the essential condition of communist Eastern Europe as the ‘absence of a normal political life’.(1) Under communism, nothing was rarer than ‘normality’. Havel also referred to Western-style ‘freedom and the rule of law’ as ‘the first preconditions of a normally and healthily functioning social organism’. And he depicted his country’s struggle to escape Krastev I 25 communist rule as ‘simply trying to do away with its own abnormality, to normalize’.(2) 1. Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (M. E. Sharpe, 1985), p. 89. 2. Cited in Benjamin Herman, ‘The Debate That Won’t Die: Havel And Kundera on Whether Protest Is Worthwhile’, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (11 January 2012). |
Krastev I Ivan Krastev Stephen Holmes The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019 |
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