Robert Conquest - History is totally unpredictable.

History is totally unpredictable.

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Robert Conquest, Historian, Interview, PBS MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, September 6, 1991

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While this was certainly true in Ancient times, modernity has given us Public Health and other techniques that now enable us to prevent accidents. Automobile safety from seat belts and air bags are good examples. From a political point of view, however, accidents can and often do control the political landscape as in the unexpected death of a national leader. Often natural disasters are included in the general term “accidents” where the meaning is taken as that which is beyond human control.