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Prizewinning historian Michael David-Fox traces the experiences of Smolensk residents between the interwar years and the end of World War II, a period during which the city and region passed from Stalinist rule to Nazi occupation and back. The result is a revelatory examination of choice and power under dueling forms of murderous totalitarianism. Exploring the life-and-death decisions of a fascinating cast of characters, David-Fox shows how deeply the Stalinist and Nazi regimes relied on the co-optation of average citizens motivated by greed and need, but always within the orbit of ideology.

Socialism is fatally flawed because it bets on the proverbial rabbit to eat the fox the 101st time when the fox has eaten the rabbit the last 100 times. Socialism has failed their countries 100 out of 100 times based on one single foundational error: People will work as hard, often, and long for a collective as they would work for themselves personally. Never happened. Never will happen.