Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed

• SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  dissolved the USSR against the will of the people Russians

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  Seems to be just about everybody wanted to leave the USSR.

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• SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, the USSR, famous for respecting the will of the people …

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The end of East Germany was crazy precisely because it was so peaceful. A number of popular outcries in the late 80s instigated civil reforms. And then one of the defense ministers was asked on national TV in '89 “hey, does this mean we don’t need the Berlin Wall anymore”. He shrugged and confessed it was no longer needed. And the military took that as a signal to step aside and let the wall get torn down.

    In less than six months, the country was holding free elections. And by the following year, they’d reunified.

    No shots fired. A purely popular and peaceful revolution that happened practically overnight, by historical standards.

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    • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Excuse me, I have a question. Who was the leader of the USSR when this happened?

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Gorbachev.

        However, its the GDR Communist Chairman Erich Honecker that ultimately changed policy that resulted in reunification.

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