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by Sam Vaknin The West, naive and parochial, firmly believed that the rot was confined to the upper echelons of Communist and Socialist societies. Beneath the festering elites – the theory went – there are wholesome masses waiting to be liberated from the shackles of corruption, cronyism, double-talk and manipulation. Given half a chance, these […]