A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language hated by Hitler and Stalin

A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language hated by Hitler and Stalin

Can a shared language promote peace? Some people think so. In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then …

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