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Krassen Stanchev teaches Public Choice and Macroeconomic Analysis of Politics at Sofia University. He serves as Chairman of the Board and is the founder and former Executive Director of IME (www.ime.bg), the first Bulgaria’s independent and free market think thank, and is a former member and committee chairman of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991).

November 6, 2019|

Lie and Practice before 1989

by Krassen Stanchev|2 Comments

In response to: Beyond the Ideological Lie: The Revolution of 1989 Thirty Years Later

Vaclav Havel at a November 1989 rally during demonstrations in Prague leading up to the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. Image: Mike Abrahams / Alamy Stock Photo

Because coercion could only work to a certain point, the default communist policy was deceit, even when everyone knew the regime’s positions were a lie.

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