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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 7, 2024

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My outsiders perspective is that he did it to keep an opposition spirit 'alive', even though he knew his personal efforts wouldn't likely be fruitful. I don't know if he expected death, but maybe was influenced by the experiences of late soviet dissidents and Warsaw pact detractors who were often imprisoned and harassed by authorities but lived to form the foundations of some post-communists governments.