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Nope. Totally wrong. Those early protests, even though seemingly unsuccessful at the time, gave the people one important thing: hope. Of course, the other moti
by bouncycastle 7y ago
Nope. Totally wrong. Those early protests, even though seemingly unsuccessful at the time, gave the people one important thing: hope.
Of course, the other motivating factor was that the economy went to shit. People were hungry and tired of waiting in long queues with shelves at the stores almost empty. Nothing to do with "discussions and political institutions the elites were working in" though.
- nickik 7y agoYou are totally fundamentally wrong. You are disagreeing with most scholarship on how revolutions happen in political science. Hope doesn't work if there are tanks who shoot at you. The people in Poland were not braver then those in China or those in Hungary. The difference is that in those cases the political system had the will to oppose them with the force required. Unarmed protestors simple can not win against an army. Its pure idealism to believe that.