Anne Applebaum

The relationship of Trump to Russia has been reported on, and the activity to change the Republican platform happened openly, and Trump's…

— Anne Applebaum

The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make…

— Anne Applebaum

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal…

— Anne Applebaum

“From 1949 onward, any discussion of strike action was considered an “antidemocratic” crime against the state, and workers could be expelled from…

— Anne Applebaum

Americans, as a rule, rarely compare themselves with other countries, so convinced are we that our system is superior, that our politicians…

— Anne Applebaum

I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading…

— Anne Applebaum

“In March 1947, he publicly condemned the abolition of religion in all schools, warning that, “promising freedom of religion while creating institutions…

— Anne Applebaum

Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore vehicles are carefully designed so that regulators can't identify who is…

— Anne Applebaum

We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient…

— Anne Applebaum

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think…

— Anne Applebaum

If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization,…

— Anne Applebaum

“The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them…

— Anne Applebaum

A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money…

— Anne Applebaum

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it -…

— Anne Applebaum

Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want…

— Anne Applebaum

There's a reason nationalists build walls, denigrate foreigners, and denounce immigrants: Because our people are better than those people. There's a reason…

— Anne Applebaum

“the Polish Institute of National Memory estimates that there were some 5.5 million wartime deaths in the country, of which about 3…

— Anne Applebaum

The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of…

— Anne Applebaum

We now expect Google, Facebook, Twitter and other companies to police the Internet for dangerous and illegal material - violent, terrorist, criminal…

— Anne Applebaum

The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB…

— Anne Applebaum

The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims…

— Anne Applebaum

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they…

— Anne Applebaum

Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their…

— Anne Applebaum

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of…

— Anne Applebaum

The impact of Brexit is likely to be slow and incremental, hardly the sudden transformation that some Leave voters wanted. Immigrants will…

— Anne Applebaum

I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because…

— Anne Applebaum

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and…

— Anne Applebaum

Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing…

— Anne Applebaum

The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties,…

— Anne Applebaum

“The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it…

— Anne Applebaum

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship…

— Anne Applebaum

I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news…

— Anne Applebaum

“Wolf’s answers rarely praised communism outright, and he didn’t use Marxist language. But almost all of them praised the Red Army or…

— Anne Applebaum

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't,…

— Anne Applebaum

Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they…

— Anne Applebaum

Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated…

— Anne Applebaum

There is nothing inevitable about this secret offshore world. It is not a fact of nature: Our laws created tax havens, and…

— Anne Applebaum

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one…

— Anne Applebaum

Americans have long felt that NATO isn't doing its job and that the Europeans aren't contributing enough. Trump has accelerated the decline…

— Anne Applebaum

If Putin decides to run, which we are assuming that he will, there really isn't anything that can stop him. He can…

— Anne Applebaum