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  1. 09-30-2010, 03:55 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    He was the president of Finland During his time the government's power was very president-leaning, as opposed to today when the ministers hold most power. He didn't so much play the Soviet card as he kept Finland as independent and free as possible with the Bear next door.
    My point was that he was elected and reelected several times in free and fair elections (with a free media to boot). He seems to have engaged in a lot of scare-mongering, but that's not exactly unknown for democratic politicians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    My point was that he was elected and reelected several times in free and fair elections (with a free media to boot). He seems to have engaged in a lot of scare-mongering, but that's not exactly unknown for democratic politicians.
    Yep. And his personal power generated a lot of resentment.
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    Just started Russia Against Napoleon, by Dominic Lieven, a professor of Russian History from Loki's alma mata LSE. Next on the list after that is a very dry book I'm not sure I'll be able to get through, on the political economies of the Union and Confederacy in the US Civil War, and how they effected US economic development through WWI-II. Yankee Leviathan. Its thesis that the growth of the national government was driven by post-war seperatist tendencies in the South, and it arrested the development of social welfare policies through the industrialzing period is just a fascinating position.
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