"They hate our freedom..." but liberal.
Love that her bookshelf not only ranges from her own Sovietslop to Solzhenitsyn's Sovietslop, but also includes Stalingrad, which has been banned in Ukraine because Beevor dared to mention Ukrainian nationalists' role in the Holocaust btw
Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.
China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/