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If the comparison fits, it reinforces MacMurray's concern about an apostasy cascade, because that term describes 1989. The citizens of the DDR realized that nearly every citizen was at most a nominal Communist. All they needed to do was stand up together and yell loudly, and the house of straw fell.

Hence the need for what you label the 'quality condition' that the citizenry are mostly observant Catholics. Lenin, the prophet of conversion from above, must say something similar somewhere.

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