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DetlefK

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7. In his defense, that's how academia worked in the Soviet Union.

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 03:07 PM

Dec 2018

The doctorate degree wasn't linked to your academic work.

For example, look at Angela Merkel's doctorate thesis: Sloppily written, primitive and already dramatically out of date the day it was handed in.

The doctorate degree was your reward for your years of work for the communist party, for your loyalty... and sometimes for your bribery. The written thesis was only a meaningless stage-prop you hand in because it must be handed in by tradition.

For example: The wive of the romanian dictator, a high-school dropout, somehow got a doctorate degree in chemistry.

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