' The worst factor in this situation was not even... for the governments to oppress their #nationalities as efficiently as possible, but that the nationally frustrated population was firmly convinced-as was everybody else-that true free­dom.. and... sovereignty could be attained only with full #NationalEmancipation, that people without their own national #government were deprived of #HumanRights... ' #europe
#Arendt on #Imperialism in #OriginsOfTotalitarianism p272
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