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Date: 4 Oct 2024 23:29:47 GMT
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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.