Albert Einstein, who knew something about how the world works, believed that freedom "is only possible by constantly struggling for it." In our popular conception of history, many of the touchstones of that struggle are far in the past. They are in Philadelphia (1776), Yorktown (1781) and Gettysburg (1863).
Many of the more recent settings of the struggle for freedom are far away. They are in Eastern Europe — in Budapest (1956), Prague (1968), Gdansk (1981) and, the latest, in Kyiv (2022).
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