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Madeleine Albright: “We were taking too much for granted at the end of the Cold War.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2021
We were taking too much for granted at the end of the Cold War.
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Madeleine Albright

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Albright reflects on the complacency following the Cold War regarding democracy.

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