If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts and the world will govern itself.
- Lao-tsu, TAO TE CHING
He didn't use force to squelch the democratic revolution in the old Soviet Union, nor to retain its boundaries. Could he have done so? Maybe if he had tried, it would have welded the people together more strongly for democratic ideals as the Bible says the opposition of the Pharoah welded the people of Israel together.
Later thought: Not that 70 years of horrible oppression wouldn't. Maybe you can't ask for more.
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