http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/06/chen-guangcheng-they-are-scared-countryside/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Mon, 20 May 2013 14:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/06/chen-guangcheng-they-are-scared-countryside/#comment-59267 Will Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:43:22 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=138945#comment-59267 Indeed, what motivates many if not most of these harsh CCP crackdowns on real or imagined opposition to one-party authoritarian rule is the fear of losing one’s “official cap”–or even one’s head–if opposition to the unaccountable government were allowed to grow as it did in Spring 1989. There is seldom any consideration of the fact that the vast majority of (former) communist officials in the USSR and eastern Europe were not punished (other than losing their privileges as members of the nomenklatura) after the one-party Leninist regimes fell.

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