Letters to the Editor: Revival of totalitarianism is perpetrated by Putin’s big lies

In January 2018, American philosopher Richard J Bernstein said the 'spectre' of authoritarian government 'still haunts us', now four years on that spectre currently haunts Ukraine

American historian Timothy Snyder describes Putin’s “de-Nazification” pretext for invading Ukraine as “a deliberate perversion”.

In the preface to the first edition of her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Hannah Arendt wrote:

“We can no longer afford to take that which was good in the past and simply call it our heritage, to discard the bad and simply think of it as a dead load which by itself time will bury in oblivion.