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ShalmaneserIII t1_iy3g1mh wrote

Reply to comment by Loki-L in TIL that a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's government attempted to order an arrest of about 86,000 people by COMPUTER1313

> Had they cracked down on the first Monday protests at the beginning, things might have gone differently.

This seems to be a frequent miscalculation of authoritarian regimes- the idea that if they let the boot up for a while it'll be okay and let some pressure off. It does not- it only aggravates the situation.

Once you put the boot down, you must forever keep it down.

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herbw t1_iy3vavb wrote

Once they "put the boot down", the outcomes of self destruction are fore-ordained.

Their FIRST & Last miscalculation is their very existence.

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