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Posted by: gamahuche 6 months ago
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gamahuche6 months ago
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I DON'T speak German, hyperbola..
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It wasn't kosher when I was a toddler in Nazi occupied Bohemia..
But thanks for your comment and I agree with you entirely about Blair - but what did he care when he was personally making out like a bandit!?-
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hyperbola6 months ago
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OK. The interview was spectacular!
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To augment a little bit what I was trying to say, the countries I know that have made the most convincing conversions to democracy (at times still fragile and evolving) are those where the population and its elite became convinced that an autocratic system was a failure and there was a "peaceful" conversion. These "conversions" are not always successful, especially if the autoctonous population is not itself fervently supportive of democracy or internal/external "powers" can manipulate desire for change for their own benefit.
I think of parts of eastern Europe (I best know east Germany), but also of Spain. Maybe the most decisive contribution that the Germans made to a peaceful transition in Spain was the decision of German conservatives (especially Helmut Kohl) to quietly tell, behind the scenes, the "right-wing" in Spain to cool it during the transition and especially during the attempted coup. Much more effective than public interference.
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