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Less Walesa

Good revolutionaries tend to make bad rulers

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HOW many men can you think of who led a revolution and then made a success of leading their country? Well, George Washington turned out all right. Any others? Names do not exactly trip off the tongue. Which is why it should not be assumed that heroes like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel are ideal leaders for post-revolution Eastern Europe.

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