On October 9, 1989, over 70,000 people gathered in Leipzig calling for freedom and democracy — and security forces did not intervene. DW spoke to participants in the demonstration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The people gathered to demand freedom and democracy and then everything was good again.
Why didn’t people need to resort to violence? from many recent examples, state violence appears to be very effective against peaceful demonstrations so far. Wouldn’t an evil authoritarian regime want to keep power at all costs?
Yep and that’s why the evil GDR and USSR still exist, because they brutally used their huge militaries and extensive secret spy networks to kill all those protestors.
Did you read the article posted? even these shit ass liberals admit that state repression against these movements was minimal, except they still have to couch that fact in the same old tired anticommunist lies we’ve heard for years… “Well no one was really hurt… But they could have been! The government was so scary, and had authority, and was total!”
Why didn’t people need to resort to violence? from many recent examples, state violence appears to be very effective against peaceful demonstrations so far. Wouldn’t an evil authoritarian regime want to keep power at all costs?
Yep and that’s why the evil GDR and USSR still exist, because they brutally used their huge militaries and extensive secret spy networks to kill all those protestors.
Did you read the article posted? even these shit ass liberals admit that state repression against these movements was minimal, except they still have to couch that fact in the same old tired anticommunist lies we’ve heard for years… “Well no one was really hurt… But they could have been! The government was so scary, and had authority, and was total!”
it sounded like a lib appeal for peaceful protest in the face of armed police to me. ive come to expect the jab at socialism from certain places.