The courage of two convictions: Nicolas Sarkozy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The first conviction of France’s former president shocked the nation; the second confirms for citizens that, these days, politicians will be held to account. Our correspondent meets a Burmese hipster who, after this year’s military coup, has become a somewhat conflicted freedom fighter. And the record label whose name you may never have heard but whose music you certainly have.
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| 1:09.9 | Huge protests after Myanmar's coup in February have long since died down, but a resistance movement still exists. |
| 1:17.6 | We meet an ordinary citizen with no history of violence who's ended up as a somewhat conflicted freedom fighter. |
| 1:24.6 | And one of the most important record labels in history doesn't have any famous |
| 1:29.2 | musicians. You can't even buy their records in shops, but you can hear the label's music absolutely |
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