Word: realpolitick
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...born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...
Imagine: the realpolitick savvy of a Henry Kissinger combined with the moral code of a Mother Teresa. John Paul II's worldliness combined with his faith in the other world made him a remarkably effective global leader...
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