They included the immense destruction and death of World War I, the legacy of feudalism with its backwardness, peasantry and small working class, brutal and czarist autocracy intertwined with Russian Orthodox state church, anti-Semitism, the legacy of oppression, and lack of democratic traditions..…

By the many sensitivities that such ideology holds, Throughout the century, the popular movements that most improved the quality of life and well-being of the working class and popular classes, in European democratic countries were those rooted in the ideology, represented. ..…

His comments come a month before European Parliament elections in which populist and nationalist parties are expected to do well. ..…

The irruption of the extreme right in European governments and the whole western world forces us to reflect on what is failing in the democratic system. ..…