
Michael McFaul @McFaul
PS The Suez crisis referred to by the British intelligence official was in 1956. (The Soviet invasion of Hungary that same year was also a pretty major defeat for liberal ideas, but Suez was a bigger deal for Brits than Americans as I learned as a student @UniofOxford.) — PolitiTweet.org
Michael McFaul @McFaul
And democracy/liberalism did not end in 1956. Nor did Western liberalism/democracy die in the 1930s, 1949, or 1975… https://t.co/PMPtAd6bsq