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  1. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.
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  2. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    The revolution was a gift from God to the Romanian people. The Romanian people must now repay this gift by opening their hearts to people of all faiths, especially to those who suffered here in the past.
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  3. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    A better age would have to follow.
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  4. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" {macedoine}, defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory. Each nation demands that is borders revert to where they were at the exact time when its own empire had reached its zenith of ancient medieval expansion.
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  5. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    The train passed through a series of tunnels. Because the overhead light fixtures had no bulbs in them, some people lit candles inside the tunnels, which dramatically illuminated their black, liquid eyes. There was a solemn, almost devotional cynicism to these eyes, reflecting, as though by a genetic process, all of the horrors witnessed by generation upon generation of forebears.
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  6. Robert D. Kaplan _ Balkan Ghosts: A Journey

    Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa.
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