"malcolm hirst" wrote in message
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Hello Rodney

Popular in this context should probably be read as "People's" - it is
in fact if not in mind synonimous. A fair number of peoples republics
do not appear to have a high regard for people and are certainly
decidedly unpopular - and Romania of a certain period more unpopular
than most !

Regards
Malcolm

I have good reasons to think that "popular" and "people's" are synonymous.
For example in Merriam-Webster, when looking for "popular sovereignty", I
have found:

1: a doctrine in political theory that sovereignty is vested in the people
as a whole rather than in a particular individual or group (as a ruling
dynasty) and as a result that government is created by and subject to the
will of the people establish the doctrine of popular sovereignty as the
foundation of modern Europe, Times Literary Supplement

As for the popularity of the Communist regime in Romania, you are certainly
right.

Victor Manta

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