How are symbols used to help us understand

Was the civil war inevitable? could anything have been done through compromise to stop it, or did it have to happen?

In 1956 , what country tried to break free of soviet control

Which concept is plato expressing in the excerpt below? when men have both done and suffered tyranny, and have had experience of both . . they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither. . —plato, the republic: book ii