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A Strong Leader/ Dictator

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    #122
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    bnt wrote: »
    I don't know if you meant that as a joke - vote for a Dictator? - but look at what happened in Germany: after two German Federal elections in 1932, they went from "free and fair elections" to a dictatorship in about three months.

    After the second elections in November 1932, the Nazi party (NSDAP) was the largest in the Reichstag, but without a clear majority - a bit like the UK after the last election. The Nazis had to form a coalition government, and Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933 after some political manoeuvring; the President (von Hindenburg) didn't want to do it, because he could see that Hitler was trouble, but was left with no choice. They passed a few laws straight away, but the real start of the dictatorship was the burning of the Reichstag in late February: the President passed a decree authorising emergency powers, and the rest was just a matter of ... coordination. a.k.a. Gleichschaltung. Alles in Ordnung, Jawohl? :eek:

    Have you been watching the History Channel again !


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    #123
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    th3 s1aught3r wrote: »
    Have you been watching the History Channel again !
    Is that a question! If so, the answer is no, I just read?

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #124
    TwoShedsJackson
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    th3 s1aught3r wrote: »
    A fool like me :pac:

    Indeed.


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