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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of 1950s Democracy
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:51:25 -0000 (UTC)
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According to rbowman  <bowman@montana.com>:
>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. 

Who knows.  It worked surprisingly well for Austria in 1955.

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