Vox Populi

In 1959 the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht published one of his most famous poems, Die Lösung (The Solution), which contained these lines: …. the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another? It was a biting satire of the Communist repression of the 1953 workers’ uprising in East Germany and indeed was written at that time, and only pub