11-03-2018, 10:43 AM
Poland had a delayed Awakening Era. Its Crisis was more protracted with the Stalinist consolidation of power that never quite got completed. Poland got into a very flawed 1T under Gomulka, and was slow to adopt (Boom Awakening) cultural tendencies from western Europe and America. Poland's Awakening was more religious and political than cultural, in view of the nature of its flawed 1T. The Commies were not good at managing the economy, and Poles are fortunate that the Commies were unable to collectivize Polish agriculture.
To say that the anti-Communist revolutions of 1989 in central and Balkan Europe were Awakening events is credible even if most of the West was clearly 3T. But those revolutions were probably the end of the Awakenings in those countries, as issues became largely economic and not cultural.
Decolonization did not happen at the same time in the various countries. Saudi Arabia had areas never under colonial rule. Iraq got formal independence in 1932, Egypt got it in 1936, and Syria and Lebanon in 1944. Libya got it in the early 1950s, Tunisia in 1957, and Algeria in 1962. Morocco was never fully a colony. The Arab world is not a political monolith and never was except as a colonies and puppet states mostly of the Ottoman Empire.
The mullahs of Iran are as corrupt as any Communist or plutocratic elite anywhere else. They have gotten rich off taking bribes, and they know that in the wake of any revolution they will be the first to go before the firing squad. They may not be quite the killers that Satan Hussein was or that Assad pere was and Assad fils is, but murderous regimes can go down hard. Heck, the July 20 plotters came close to toppling Hitler and his criminal gang. It is unfortunate that they failed.
To say that the anti-Communist revolutions of 1989 in central and Balkan Europe were Awakening events is credible even if most of the West was clearly 3T. But those revolutions were probably the end of the Awakenings in those countries, as issues became largely economic and not cultural.
Decolonization did not happen at the same time in the various countries. Saudi Arabia had areas never under colonial rule. Iraq got formal independence in 1932, Egypt got it in 1936, and Syria and Lebanon in 1944. Libya got it in the early 1950s, Tunisia in 1957, and Algeria in 1962. Morocco was never fully a colony. The Arab world is not a political monolith and never was except as a colonies and puppet states mostly of the Ottoman Empire.
The mullahs of Iran are as corrupt as any Communist or plutocratic elite anywhere else. They have gotten rich off taking bribes, and they know that in the wake of any revolution they will be the first to go before the firing squad. They may not be quite the killers that Satan Hussein was or that Assad pere was and Assad fils is, but murderous regimes can go down hard. Heck, the July 20 plotters came close to toppling Hitler and his criminal gang. It is unfortunate that they failed.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.