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struggle4progress

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Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:06 AM 9 hrs ago

Docility under totalitarianism

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Mar 21, 2026

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss how and why people are docile under a totalitarian regime, the collaborators, the compromisers, and the resisters, with Ian Buruma, author of “Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945.”

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