发自伦敦 — — 在1953年东德工人罢工事件之后，德国剧作家布尔托·布莱希特（Bertolt Brecht）尖锐地指出 ： “ 倘若政府发现民众已经对其丧失了信心 ” ， 那么解决这一问题的更有效方式莫过于“解散这届人民并选出另一届。
LONDON – In the wake of the 1953 workers’ uprising in East Germany, the playwright Bertolt Brecht mordantly suggested that “if the people had forfeited the confidence of the government,” the government might find it easier to “dissolve the people and elect another.”