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Although the post-war times were very difficult and the welfare
state did not come cheap, the post-war state "was a ´social´ state,
with implicit (and often constitutionally explicit) responsibility
for the well-being of its citizens". This is emphasized by Tony
Judt, according to whom: "... the postwar welfare systems were
a guarantee of a certain minimum of justice, or fairness. This
was not the spiritual and social revolution for which many in the
wartime Resistance had dreamed, but it was a first step away
from the hopelessness and cynicism of the pre-war years" (Judt,
2010: 76-77). The experience of the Great Depression and the
Second World War should still remind us that the social issues
are very closely associated with the existence and stability of a
democratic society.
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