"A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic, " Churchill warned in an October 1938 speech denouncing the militarization of totalitarian Germany and Italy and their rejection of free-thinking society.
In fact, it is an irony of post-communism that ethnic minorities like the Albanians of Macedonia are expected to act in a totalitarian way by so many western advocates of political pluralism and civil society.