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Then the thunder comes in 1929.
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The United States doesn't get out of the Depression
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until basically World War II.
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The war economy helps them do that.
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But Eastern Europe, in the places where the instability
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and the lack of parliamentary traditions was so important,
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was in agricultural depression the entire time.
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By 1939 in Central and Eastern Europe, only one state,
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Czechoslovakia, remains a parliamentary regime.
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In all of the others, the Eastern Europe of little dictators,
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and fascist parties,
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and rightwing agrarian populist parties