Since Walesa is in the news over wanting to help Hong Kong, another cool parallel with Poland is the carefully negotiated elections in 1989, which accelerated the collapse of the government even though they were designed with a built-in majority for the communistshttps://twitter.com/suilee/status/1199159569244536832 …
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I just meant it was an election result that the powers that were did not see coming, won democratically, if not by a majority
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I see. I'm asking about something a little different, when a repressive unelected government allows a fair election in hopes it will thereby gain some legitimacy, with safeguards in place to make sure it can't get voted out, and badly miscalculates.
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