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Title: Fascism: A Warning; Author: Madeleine Albright; Publisher: William Collins; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 699 If not the outcome of the Second World War, the Berlin Wall's fall seemed to pave the way for democracy's triumph -- but nearly three decades later, we may be forced to rethink this comforting thought. The recent growth of authoritarianism, emphasising "tradition" and conformity and villifying globalisation, immigration and dissent are pointers that fascism is certainly not in the "dustbin of history". We have long thought that it was the 20th century which saw the global clash between democracy and fascism, where the latter…