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>>Don't get me wrong, I'm about as anti-war and anti-violence as it gets. Yes... military -- boring, military tech -- double plus cool. :-) >>I lived in Polan
by berntb 16y ago
>>Don't get me wrong, I'm about as anti-war and anti-violence as it gets.
Yes... military -- boring, military tech -- double plus cool. :-)
>>I lived in Poland before the fall of the wall for a while and it taught me a lot. For one it taught me how the people in a country like that are to some extent complicit by refusing to stand up for their fellow man when it matters.
I didn't live there, but those in the Eastern block knew what would happen if they stood up (e.g. Hungary, Czechoslovakia).
When it became clear there wouldn't be Soviet divisions rolling over the border if they stood up, then they threw out their Soviet puppet regimes in months.
Edit: OK, sorry for missing the point.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's standing up on a slightly larger scale than I meant, I specifically meant when the local 'zomos' or whatever they were called in the country of choice were using informants to rat on their fellow men instead of forming a solid block. There always seem to be people willing to collaborate in return for favors. Revolution is a different matter.