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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 16:46:32 -0700
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:18:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> Their voting system was put in place under Konrad Adenauer after World
>> War II, and was designed specifically to ensure a dictator could never
>> take power again. It worked so well, that’s why we in NZ copied it.
> 
> Who knows what might have happened but in 1952 Stalin proposed reuniting 
> Germany with Germany becoming a neutral state not aligned with either 
> side. Adenauer turned down the offer ensuring over 30 years of misery for 
> the east. As one of my links pointed out reintegrating the east is still a 
> problem. 
> 

Probably wise not to take the offer. Stalin wold have bribed his way to
controlling a united Germany, just like Putin is doing now in the US and
several EU countries.

-- 
Pete