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There's a book on the subject written by Srdja Popovic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint_for_Revolution
Summary: protests that start (and try to remain) non-violent have a greater chance to succeed, because they can attract more people to their cause.
Critique: with some regimes, it's not possible to non-violently protest. For non-violent protest to work, the environment must respect a minimum amount of human rights.
Case samples:
...etc. In some places, you can't organize. Then your only option is to fight. As long as you can publicly organize, definitely do so - it's vastly preferable. :)
Tankies are going to hate this comment.
They already are. :) I didn't quite expect this effect, but I welcome it. :)
Crazy how triggered (and retarded) they are. Even got one who, rather than admitting he was wrong, doubled down arguing that the GDR was a USSR member state. For some reason that was important to his "argument".
Bcs it's garbage
^^
For hell's sake have you ever seen the entire video from which the picture was extracted? The guy literally stopped the tanks, had a chat with them, and walked away unharmed.
And like clockwork, here they come crawling out of the woodworks ...
"Oh no, the evil tankies are here to give facts against my CIA-manufactured sinophobic propaganda :("
Please, answer: have you ever watched the entire thing?
Have you ever watched this, tankboy?
https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs
I especially liked the bit about using tanks to make human pie, and then flushing the pie down the drains.
thanks CIA, your cringe BS is still cringe.
Guess that's all you have, certainly not arguments
So let me get this clear: your position is that I am CIA and that the Tiananmen square massacre did not happen?
Is that correct, or am I missing something? Feel free to use "arguments" to explain yourself.
you are missing a lot, brains mostly.
Also not interested in low level basic about the irrelevant tinyman square noise so bye.
Hey bloemkool, in the English language, people typically only have one brain. I'm not a zombie, so I have no need for multiple brains. So do you have anything else besides ad hominems?
I just asked two simple yes/no questions. It is telling that you are refusing to answer.
I said not interested.
And the other answers: "out-of-context, manipulative, anticommunist, CIA-sponsored atrocity propaganda" shows people know what you're doing.
So calling you out on it is not an ad hominem since YOU did it.
And you're the one using cheap obvious fallacies here like putting words in my mouth "the Tiananmen square massacre did not happen"
That CIA orchestrated failed attempt at destabilisation maybe was a massacre.
Seen pictures of many dead bicycles.
Unfortunately also from the lynched police from the rioters who infiltrated the protest.
One of the many things that OC was hidden in our oh so free and objective democratic western press.
I bet you haven't got a clue the protest was about.
So before I get bored of toying with you, have you something of value and relevant to ad or only more platitudes?
No, you said I was lacking brains (sic). That is an ad hominem.
You know you are in an echo chamber right?
Oh honey 😂
You, digging up an irrelevant non-event from half a century ago, a fixation of the rabid anti-communist US imperialist propaganda machine shows who is in an echo chamber.
Imagine choosing a user name like that. LOL How fanatic must you be?
And so you have nothing meaningful to offer as I expected.
Better luck somewhere else, bye
You're the one who got fixated on it sweetheart. I just showed you an image of a lego figurine and offff you went. You guys are so easy to trigger. 😂
Says the twerp who is afraid to even answer a simple yes/no question about this so called "irrelevant non-event" from half a century ago.
You're like the holocaust denier or flat-earther who is afraid to answer the obvious question because they know they will be ridiculed and deep down they know they're wrong and have no arguments to defend themselves.
jeez clown are you still here? not reading your BS, just blocking your annoying nonsense. You're like some biblethumper
Oh really, someone is being annoying to you? Oh noes!
BTW, you don't have to announce it when you block someone.
Your lack of self awareness is staggering.
When Palestinians protest peacefully they get shot at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_Gaza_border_protests
When foreigners peacefully protest in solidarity they get shot or run over.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241231447/rachel-corrie-gaza-palestinians-aid-israel-hamas-war
LOL complete BS
Imaginary history.
They murdered hundreds of palestinians during peaceful protests. GTFO with this BS.
How many times can you list russia/ussr? Give me a break with this lib imperialism.
I may list it as many times as I need. I was born there and grew up there, and have a whole lot of information about how life was.
Not sure you should include Gorbachev since he illegally dissolved the USSR against the will of the people.
Seems to be just about everybody wanted to leave the USSR.
Yes, the USSR, famous for respecting the will of the people ...
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.
Excuse me, I have a question. Who was the leader of the USSR when this happened?
Gorbachev.
However, its the GDR Communist Chairman Erich Honecker that ultimately changed policy that resulted in reunification.
Ah Schrödinger's Gorbachev, both a great respector of the will of the people, as well a traitor who went against the will of the people.
Then why did you comment on a post that was about the USSR?
What? Do you believe everyone in a country has identical political views?
That's a very naive understanding of popular politics.
The GDR was a member of the USSR.
You're a bit dim aren't you? The parent post that I replied to claimed that Gorbachev was a traitor who went against the will of the people, I said the USSR wasn't wel known for respecting the will of the people in the first place, and here you are giving an example of when the USSR actually did respect the will of the people ... when Gorbachev was in power.
So my conclusion is that Gorbachev must exist in a state of superposition, where he is both things at once.
What does the G in GDR stand for?
The GDR was a member state of the USSR. And the dissolution of the GDR happened under Gorbachev, in a manner that did respect the public's rights.
At the same time, Gorbachev's dismantling of the USSR came in direct opposition to his communist peers, to the point where he was couped by his military leadership in an attempt to stop him.
I know you're attempting wit, but its coming at the expense of your expressed understanding of history.
Gorbachev did, in fact, manager to govern in such a manner that he pissed off just about everyone - the Yeltsin reformists on his right flank (who froze him out of office after he survived the coup) and the Communists on his left flank (who joined him in the dust bin of history after Yeltsin sold the country off piecemeal).
The GDR is the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany.
It was a communist country, a member of the Warsaw pact, and aligned with the USSR, but it was not a member state of the USSR.
See also: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria.
See above.
LOL
https://inthesetimes.com/article/wikileaks-docs-expose-famed-serbian-activists-ties-to-shadow-cia
Telling you have the name perestroika, by the hated traitor Gorbachev putting them in misery while corrupt oligarchs from the west leeched on Russia.