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"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
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Being
"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
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