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1/ ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE - We appear to be seeing the collapse of an authoritarian regime IN REAL TIME!
(TAKE NOTES!)
Disaffected personnel of the Belarus state apparatus are defecting to the side of the masses (who have been engaged in large-scale demonstrations).
1/ ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE - We appear to be seeing the collapse of an authoritarian regime IN REAL TIME!
(TAKE NOTES!)
Disaffected personnel of the Belarus state apparatus are defecting to the side of the masses (who have been engaged in large-scale demonstrations).
2/ Such defections typically occur because energetic demonstrations embolden multitudes of disaffected people to follow suit. The end result may be a cascade effect that is impossible to stop, leaving the regime alienated with no option but to step down.
3/ The current events in Belarus contain many similarities to the dynamics which led to the collapse of communism in East Germany in 1989.
Furthermore, the collapse of authoritarian regimes often contain patterns which tend to repeat themselves throughout history.
Furthermore, the collapse of authoritarian regimes often contain patterns which tend to repeat themselves throughout history.
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