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The victors began looting, and hunting down the new leader's political rivals, two of whom have already been executed.
The victors celebrated by looting.
"The main victors [in the east German state of Brandenburg] were the reformed communists in the Party of Democratic Socialism, with 23 per cent of the vote, and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Volksunion, which will sneak into the state parliament with 5.2 per cent."
(It was Van Buren's ally William L. Marcy who famously said, "To the victors belong the spoils," making the "spoils system" of rewarding supporters a fixture of party politics.)
These have ranged from the triumphalist (such as Jay Winik's On the Brink , a hagiographic account of the Reagan-era officials he sees as the Cold War's victors) to the tendentious (say, Peter Schweizer's simplistic Victory , giving all the credit, again, to Reagan) to the thoughtful (such as We Now Know , by the dean of Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis).