Rise and fall: when Attila is dead. (glasnost)
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The well-trained soldiers of the neighboring states cannot match the ferocious energy of these barbarians, who crush and loot everything that stands in their way
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The rise and fall of such barbaric empires is intimately connected with charismatic military and religious leaders who succeed in mobilizing all the energy of the nation into one great effort
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after the death of this charismatic leader, the empire he has built up falls apart in one or another way
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Sometimes so does even the empire-building nation itself
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The Roman and Arabic empires, however, lasted much longer
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A barbaric society is nearly always militaristic: here a man is primarily a fighter, a soldier; the best thing for a man to do is to make war
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If the militarism becomes too dominant, the society can easily destroy itself completely, depleting both its material and its spiritual resources
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