"The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the beginning. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war."
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Science fiction authorsJews from PolandPhilosophers from PolandEssayists from PolandSatirists from Poland
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Peace on Earth (1987), tr. Elinor Ford (1994) from Pokój na Ziemi, Ch. 2
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Stanisław Lem
1921 – 2006
polnischer Schriftsteller
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