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Two Rooms

The argument about Ukraine has split into two rooms, each sure the other is selling propaganda. They agree on more than they admit, and much of what divides them can be checked.

This month I spent a few days in Slovenia, in the museums of Ljubljana and at Lake Bled. A year ago it was Dubrovnik. Both were republics of Yugoslavia, which Tito took down its own communist road after breaking with Stalin in 1948, outside the Warsaw Pact. Both declared independence in 1991, and their exits could hardly have been more different. Slovenia’s war lasted ten days. Croatia’s lasted until 1995, and…

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