(05-30-2019, 03:29 AM)freivolk Wrote:(05-29-2019, 06:25 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: At this point the difference of two years in the 3Y/4T divide, as between 1945 and 1947 (the USA and India) means little. Four? The Crisis in Germany ended with the Berlin Air Lift which decided how German history would go to a large extent.
But in China the Crisis ends 1949.
Yes -- basically.
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.