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The opening lines of the state anthem of the USSR went as such: “An unbreakable union of free republics, Great Rus has united forever. Long live the created by the will of the peoples, the united, the mighty Soviet Union.”
But, indeed, it was not unbreakable. Twenty years ago, it broke apart spectacularly. Why do empires like the Soviet Union look so formidable and insurmountable—and even eternal—yet turn out to be so fragile? Indeed, how fragile all empires have been and are
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In case a claim was made that it’s still 2023, the Associated Press wants to assure everyone that that is false.
Now, that’s a fact-check.
What isn’t a fact-check is most of what is produced by the fact-check industry. PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and each of the in-house media organizations like CNN’s Facts First are merely confirmation machines, apparatus that reinforce the original lie, like putting lipstick on a pig.
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