twenty lessons from the twentieth century

July 30, 2020 by achrilock

“Any future elections will be a test of American traditions.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/30/2014/

July 24, 2020 by achrilock

“As paramilitaries known as the SA and the SS, they created a climate of fear that helped the Nazi Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932 and 1933. In Austria in 1938 it was the local SA that quickly took advantage of the absence of the usual local authority to loot, beat, and humiliate Jews, thereby changing the rules of politics and preparing the way for the Nazi takeover of the country.”

— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/24/1852/

July 19, 2020 by achrilock

“When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/19/1673/

July 17, 2020 by achrilock

“‘If the main pillar of the system is living a lie,’ wrote Havel, ‘then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth.’”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/17/1618/

July 4, 2020 by achrilock

“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity performs a masquerade of history, though a different one. It is concerned with the past, but in a self-absorbed way, free of any real concern with facts. Its mood is a longing for past moments that never really happened during epochs that were, in fact, disastrous.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/04/1265/

July 3, 2020 by achrilock

“Even the history of lapel pins is far from innocent. In Nazi Germany in 1933, people wore lapel pins that said ‘Yes’ during the elections and referendum that confirmed the one-party state. In Austria in 1938, people who had not previously been Nazis began to wear swastika pins. What might seem like a gesture of pride can be a source of exclusion.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/03/1233/

June 20, 2020 by achrilock

“Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/20/843/

June 1, 2020 by achrilock

“But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/01/349/

June 1, 2020 by achrilock

“Modern authoritarian regimes, such as Russia, use laws on extremism to punish those who criticize their policies. In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme tyranny.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/01/338/

May 31, 2020 by achrilock

“On the strength of Hitler’s claim that the fire was the work of Germany’s enemies, the Nazi Party won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections on March 5. The police and the Nazi paramilitaries began to round up members of left-wing political parties and place them in improvised concentration camps.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/31/312/