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markpkessinger

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10. He wasn't afraid of it; he was downright hostile to it . . .

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 01:43 PM

Feb 2014

. . . largely, I think, because of his experience of Soviet Bloc-style communism in Poland. Thus, I think he was unduly suspicious of all left-wing movements. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to grasp that Polish politics wasn't a very good lens through which to view Latin American politics.

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