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Government / Politics / Ukraine politics | | French term or phrase: glaciation | Hi all!
I know the meaning of this word and that it can be translated by glaciation or Ice Age in English, but how would you translate it here?
"Si nous souhaitons conserver le système qui régnait dans le pays auparavant, autant ne rien changer. Sacrifions la liberté de la presse, la démocratie au profit de la **glaciation** et il se peut même que la situation économique du pays n’en soit pas gravement affectée."
Could it be a reference to cold war-type politics or returning to the Ice Age instead of progressing or is this reading too much into it or getting it completely wrong?
Many TIA |
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8 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 stagnation
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10 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 Cold War politics
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Cold war politics -more likely
Bearing in mind that you speak of Ukraine and their very troubled history and that the field is politics I am more inclined to think it means "cold war politics" rather than anything about Ice Age
The reason I say that is beause part of the cold war politics and much of the politics afterwards were first of all based on the hushing the press, the non existing freedom of speech and the idea of democracy was entirely alien.
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