From a friend: After the fall of the Iron Curtain, what was mistaken for the end of history was nothing more than our ignorance of history.  It never left us, though too many still do not know it.

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by Richard Fernandez
April 19, 2015

…My father never forgave the Russians for perpetuating the terror the Nazis had begun. He never forgave the French for being weak and corrupt and losing a war in six weeks. He never forgave the Poles for counting on the French instead of themselves. And above all he never forgave the Germans. My father never forgave Europe for being monstrous, and he never forgave Europeans for how easily they forgave themselves. For him, Europe was a place of monsters, collaborators, and victims. He never returned to Hungary, or to Europe. He had no interest in going there. When I was in college I asked him why he refused to recognize that Europe had changed. His answer was simple: Europe will never change. It will just act as if nothing happened. When I look at the European Union now, I think of my father’s words. READ MORE