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as a candidate, who promised to hang "all big thieves and big crooks". Additionally, Kommunist wrote that the "bourgeois rogue government" did not officially put Pögelmann's candidacy to the vote, fearing that the majority of the people would vote for Pögelmann. Based on that, the EKP invited people
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