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How to democracy successfully pretends

Valentin Falin , longtime Soviet ambassador in Bonn, wrote in 1977 in a report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as a suggestion, how could the Soviet leadership represented in a better democratic light, the following:

In particular, to explore the legislative and administrative practice in Germany. The West German government has flexible and reliable means of preventing and eliminating undesirable activities. Here, dissidents not pursued on the grounds that they spread the regime unpopular information, but "because of their" anti-constitutional activity, and violation of public policy and the like. Also of interest is the local system of law that provides the opportunity before sentencing a person for months and years to isolate and they actually have to follow long before their case has been investigated exhaustively by the last judicial instance.

This system works successfully because it is connected with carefully thought-out transparency and supplemented by other seemingly democratic attributes that make it possible to print in the boiler to keep to a reasonable level. As before, press play, church, schools and civil society organizations under the supervision of the government more open and disguised an important role in the suppression of the opposition. *)

Learning from Germany means learning how to pretend democracy. Has changed since 1977 in any way? Asking the question is to answer to ...

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*) Although it is this blog not a dissertation, I will not hide in times of Guttenberg and the source: Vladimir Bukovsky , settlement with Moscow. The Soviet regime of injustice and the guilt of the West. Bergisch Gladbach, 1997, p. 540 f.