• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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    The eastern bloc was mostly dismantled by peaceful protests. So you don’t really seem to know that much about peaceful protests, it can be very effective. Of applied correctly and consistently and not only once in a blue moon. Here are some things for reading for you

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      Are you saying the Eastern Bloc was more democratic and responsive to public pressure than the liberal democracies of the West?

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        You can interpret it how you want, that wasn’t your statement I refuted. Matter of fact remains, that those were peaceful protests and they reached their goal.