![The Auschwitz concentration camp after its liberation in 1945 by Soviet troops in Oswiecim, Poland.](https://stephenkinzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AFP_YH8WN.jpg)
Nations built on lies
DURING WORLD WAR II, some people in Poland cheered the Nazis and helped them kill Jews. Saying so is now a crime in Poland. A new law imposes prison terms of up the three years for anyone who asserts “that the Polish nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes.” The purpose […]
![Democracy, when it suits us](https://stephenkinzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AFP_Y1515.jpg)
Democracy, when it suits us
DEMOCRACY IS DISINTEGRATING in Venezuela, and American leaders are outraged. Our vociferous ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, denounced a recent constitutional referendum in Venezuela as a “sham” and “another step toward dictatorship.” Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez asserted that the leftist Venezuelan government has created a “lawless environment,” and demanded that the […]