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I get the sense that this decade will play host to weeks where decades happen.

I am not excited. After all, "May you live in interesting times" is a curse, not a blessing.

> I get the sense that this decade will play host to weeks where decades happen.

What do you mean by this? That what usually would occur in decades would now occur in weeks?

Its an expression in (American) English that means that the amount of change (or number of significant events) in the week was equivalent to a decade in other times.

The original appears to be:

"Есть десятилетия, когда ничего не происходит; и бывают недели, когда происходят десятилетия"

It’s referencing a quote by Lenin:

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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