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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Captured Nazi pows.
The Americans regularly took nazi pows( that would have important info)back to some small town somewhere in Americas heartland and tried to befriend them to get them to talk. They would drink with them , feed them steak and fish you know just normal #### that you and your friends would do on a regular basis. It's the only instance that comes to mind but they got more useful info this way then torturing.
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I would say pretty much any time there is lasting peace after a social or political change, it is because the new ruling power wins the hearts and minds of most of the people they defeated. There will always be individuals and groups that don't buy in of course. Just like there will always be racist people.
Violence tends to have the opposite long term effect, whether it is a conventional war or a class war like this one.