I was heartened and terrified to read David Mitchell’s article (“Here’s a shock, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect”, New Review). What made his article resonate particularly was the sentence, “Did nobody tell them about Stalin?”
As a history A-level student, it serves as a reminder of one of the many reasons I chose to study it: having even a vague awareness of the past horrors of authoritarianism can help fight its present stirrings.
