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No country in Europe is Socialist. They're examples of the Welfare State, which was created to deflate Socialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismar
by msla 4y ago
No country in Europe is Socialist. They're examples of the Welfare State, which was created to deflate Socialism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
> A master of complex politics at home, Bismarck created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support that might otherwise go to his socialist opponents.
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