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Yugoslavia revolts without bloodshed

Published Monday, October 9, 2000

The 20th century will someday be remembered as a dark age in the history of politics. It is a century that has seen two world wars, millions upon millions killed by the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa engulfed in a massive civil war. It is a century whose central lesson may someday be to fear any ideology that claims to have The Answer -- such as the "final solution" or "cultural revolution" -- to the problem of human political interaction.

Former dissident and current Czech President Výclav Havel wrote that the price of such...

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