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Article: The Long Goodbye.(end of communism)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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And Eric's Consoling Lies
THE FUNERAL of communism will last for thirty years, prophesied Francois Furet in 1995. "The funeral procession will be accompanied by an immense crowd", he added, "and there will be much weeping. Even young people will join the cortege, trying here and there to give it the air of a rebirth." Hopes of a rebirth were vain, for the faith in communism was irretrievably tattered, but the funeral would last for years because "anti-communism remains more than ever a damnable heresy . . . more universally condemned in the West than in the great days of victorious antifascism." [1] Furet was not thinking only of France; he explained that in the ...