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ndileas · 23 hours ago
I'm not any kind of historian. Reading the works of those who are, is mind boggling. There is just so much history out there. 60 years of civil war, with heavy conscription...hard to imagine. Although future historians might look at our recent era as 80 some years of war, counting wwi-ussr dissolution.

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cdot2 · 23 hours ago
My take-away is that the phrase didn't mean decadence but rather a return to normal life and the end of the civil wars.