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So we’ve come to the end… Personally, I must admit to have greatly profited from the campaign— not only did I learn to swear in Italian thanks to Silvio (coglioni votano per la sinistra), but I was reminded about the cannibal practices of Chinese communists and was instructed that EU and UN observers should follow elections not only in Belarus and the Ukraine but also here in Italy.
Similarly instructive lessons stemmed from the Polish election campaign last fall. The main thrust of the campaign was the sad fait of the citizens of Gdansk and Western Poland who during WWII were forcefully recruited into the Wehrmacht.
Unfortunately, in both campaigns I did not learn much about how the respective political parties planned to rule the country. Just think what were/are the campaigns' facts the voters have based their decisions on.
Pretty frightening…