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Published · transcript-backedBruno Maçães: belief
26 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
“Tocqueville said that the United States and Russia had a lot in common. I think there’s a certain ability that both have to understand the other.”
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- Bruno Maçães
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- 26 Sept 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Is the United States the country that understands Russia least well? No. I’m not sure of that, actually. Tocqueville said that the United States and Russia had a lot in common. I think there’s a certain ability that both have to understand the other. The European Union, I think, does not understand Russia at all. Certainly, the United States has trouble understanding the world as a whole, but Russia may actually be a bit of an exception. Why has Russia never been a free, liberal country, or maybe very, very briefly? What is it in their history or their cultural roots that accounts for so much emphasis on state control, authoritarianism, sometimes totalitarianism?…
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