Politics · 26 November 2008 ·
Banana Politics
How regimes rely on bananas.
Last year, I proposed the hypothesis that the survival rate of commmunist states correlates to the availability of bananas. If bananas are available countries tend to survive longer. This applies particuclarly to communist ones. Let me give you some examples: The German Democratic Republic sufffered under chronic banana shortages and collapsed after only 40 years. Cuba on the other hand survived, I suppose mainly due the fact that they are in fact a banana producing country. In fact, I propose that the reason for resistance in East Germany was the lack of bananas. So this is my theory. Now don’t confuse me with facts and examples of South American countries.
Besides, if you take this post serious, I will give you a banana.
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