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Pole who burned himself to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion [81]
When it comes to drawing attention to your cause , burning yourself is very very effective..
Hmmm...it's nothing I could claim knowing the whole truth about but we all know that the public generally has the attention span of a fruit fly.
Already the next day something else makes the headlines...and the further away the public is the quicker they forget.
I doubt that the brave people who gave the highest what they could, they own lives, did alot to help their case.
As there is hard and dirty and dangerous groundwork needed for years and years, not the big but short time shows.
The soviet empire didn't fall because of the few people who burnt themselves....and that the west (if he did care) was sympathetic to their cause didn't help the people behind the iron curtain one yota...
Moscow didn't care and Washington could do nothing...so what was achieved?
Am I a cynic now?
