Salami tactics
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Salami tactics, also known as the salami-slice strategy, is a process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition. With it, an aggressor can influence and eventually dominate a landscape, typically political, piece by piece. In most cases it includes the creation of several factions within the opposing political party and then dismantling that party from the inside, without causing the "sliced" sides to protest.
The term was coined in the late 1940s by the ultra-Stalinist Mátyás Rákosi to describe the actions of the Hungarian Communist Party. Similar tactics were also used in the majority of the Communist-dominated states of the post-war era, including Poland.
The tactic is not limited to communism. Adolf Hitler's NSDAP achieved absolute power in Germany within the early months of 1933 by squeezing out his conservative partners, partners who had acceded in the outlawing of Communists and Social Democrats and granting emergency powers to him.
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- Horvath, John. 2000. "Salami Tactics". Retrieved July 11, 2005.
