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Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 02, 2024
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In 2017, someone claiming to be from Eastern Europe posted a series of tweets describing life under totalitarian rule. Martin Mycielski, Director of Public Affairs of the Open Dialogue Foundation in Brussels, collected the tweets and published them in 2018 as The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide.

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