As far as I know

, it happens

immediately, immediately

, the Politburo member Günter Schabowski stuttered into the microphones in 1989, thus providing a prime example of how important precise communication is in times of crisis: Because with this hasty and unclear statement, the iron curtain broke in itself, and actually one could have drawn the lesson from this, especially in Berlin, that one should not generally drive mismanagement in one's own country so far that people no longer see any perspective for themselves and no longer allow themselves to be locked up. Fortunately, I was not in the GDR, but at the moment, it seems to me, you get a pretty good impression of why power without civilian control is rather poorly received by the people in times of crisis.