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Understanding Evil: The Soviet Union and the Sanction of the Victim

Nikos Sotirakopoulos

Presented at: OCON 2022

Date: Jul 07, 2022

The Bolsheviks began as an insignificant, minority group that seized power in 1917, yet they maintained it for seven decades and established an empire with global reach. The regime struggled from day one, and yet it managed to sustain itself and expand. There are useful lessons to draw from this for the student of history and ideas. What does the Soviet Union’s history teach us about the nature of evil? How does it survive, and how important is the role played by the sanction of the good?

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