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" Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. "
Senate
American
Nothing
" Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. "
War
Long
Hypocrisy
" Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly. "
Support
Fear
Him
" Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room. "
Waiting
Us
Together
" Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. "
Arms
Be Careful
Alternatives
" Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived. "
News
Hard
Only
" Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. "
Key
You
Moment
" He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel. "
Death
Afraid
Rebel
" I'll tell you what colonial experience is. "
Experience
Tell
You
" I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. "
Trying
More
Essay
" In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. "
You
Government
Nobody
" In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. "
Feelings
Need
Kind
" In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. "
War
World
You
" In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated. "
Fabric
Experience
Complicated
" I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. "
Way
Meeting
Talking
" I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. "
Up
Remember
Independence
" Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. "
Rubber
Rules
Changes
" Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. "
Because
Most
British
" My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. "
Reading
Travel
Reflection
" Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. "
Striving
Never
Know
" People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. "
Going
War
Cold
" Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. "
Knowledge
World
Source
" The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. "
Darkest
Africa
War
" The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. "
Way
Cold
Cold War
" The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured. "
Party
Much
May
" The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. "
Independence
Group
Fly
" There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. "
God
View
Religion
" There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. "
Experience
Power
Act
" There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. "
Assessment
Old
Understand
" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Heart
Learning
Also
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