Berkeley iconBerkeleySep 28, 2026 ~1 min source read

Seven Ways to Outlast Political Authoritarianism

Though Djurdja Padejski was raised in communist Yugoslavia, her life there felt stable and uneventful for a long time. In the 1980s, under Yugoslavia’s “soft” one-party government, Padejski and her friends read Western literature, watched Hollywood movies, and listened to the BBC. “We grew up in a very comfortable, nai

Seven Ways to Outlast Political Authoritarianism

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