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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 28
Died: 2017
Died: May 26
Author
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Former National Security Advisor
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Warszawa
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński
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