• DdCno1@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    successfully pacified East Germany and turned it into an ally

    By executing anyone who didn’t want to get along. Remember the 1953 uprising?

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Yes, that’s my point. Credibility-building worked, and so did brutal repression. This leads me to think that there was some underlying cultural factor present in post-WWII Germany that made it governable by occupiers, by whatever means. The presence of radical Islamist movements appears to correspond to the absence of such a factor. (Sufficiently brutal repression might still work, the way it did for Putin in Chechnya, but it’s not an option for Israel.)