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4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

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The Power of the Powerless

Before they knew it the berlin wall was down, and that created a dominal effect. Even he misstesiven was surprised when gorbatrov came two weeks before chekoslova at te revolution. When gorbatro came to town, people came out in prague too to greet him. They were enthusiastic. They thought change was coming. And then you get the cascade. So here is a case of a system built on preference falsification, the that was sustained by preference falsication,. That suddenly collapses when a few people call it out. This happened.

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