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- Oct 19, 2019
The Velvet Revolution succeeded because the Soviet Union backed it. Despotic strongmen don't just give up their power because the commoners are mad, they do it because the even stronger men are leaning on them. It's not something that should really inspire anyone except deepstate kingmakers.The irony of course is that the Velvet Revolution that happened in Prague was a completely revolutionary protest and the sort of thing that would surely inspire the 'Occupy X' generation growing up but instead they ignore this because Communism wasn't that bad apparently. Pretty telling when the Chinese tried their own Velvet Revolution, the tanks turned them into pink paste.