01-10-2017, 05:41 PM
In 1989, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev, upon hearing of demonstrations in Romania, warned President Ceausescu to not fire upon peaceful protesters. He did, and this was the result (warning: this is not for the faint-hearted!):
That is a fair warning to any leader who orders the police or military to fire upon peaceful protesters.
That is a fair warning to any leader who orders the police or military to fire upon peaceful protesters.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.