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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
What happens when a government, even a nondemocratic, autocratic police state, loses the consent of the governed? See the Soviet Union in 1991 for an example.
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That's rather an example of a police state failing to mobilize and impliment every brutal force necessary to quell troublemakers in the needed fashion at a certain moment of time.
Saddam's Iraq in 1991/92 is an example of a police state being able to quell popular unrest, even in the light of a military defeat.