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Almond, Mark
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The political crisis in Hungary
History professor Mark Almond places Hungarian events in an historical context. "Remember the rhetoric of anti-communism in 1989. 'No more lies.' Well, today it is back with a vengeance. ... Locked into a macro-economic framework dictated by Washington and Brussels - meeting IMF requirements and convergence criteria for the euro - New European politicians offer their electorates no real choices. ... [Hungarian revolt]1956 was symptomatic of the general malaise stretching across the 'socialist sixth of the world'. Events in Budapest today ought to mark the crisis of the dogmatic 'free market model'. For all of the rhetoric about democracy and free enterprise going hand in hand, in reality voters find all options foreclosed".
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Belarus following the elections
"By protecting Belarus from the ravages of free-market fundamentalists and delivering economic growth and prosperity for the mass of Belarussians, Lukashenko has sown the seeds of a pluralistic society far better than by handing the state's assets over to half a dozen cronies of western advisers," Mark Almond, a lecturer in modern history at Oxford University, writes from the Belarussian capital, Minsk. "Belarus is far from perfect, but it is a country where masses of ordinary people are getting on with life and getting a bit better off. That is why Lukashenko inspires fear and loathing in the thinktanks and foreign ministries of the west. By saving Belarus from mass unemployment he set a terrible example. What if the neighbours tried to copy it?"
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