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Soviet Union - was that really opposition to oppression that succeeded or the state collapsed internally - disintegrated? British India could be good example -
by ninjagoo 10mo ago
Soviet Union - was that really opposition to oppression that succeeded or the state collapsed internally - disintegrated?
British India could be good example - but there's a case to be made that it was overthrow of an external colonial rule that never integrated with the local population, so not sure there is a good parallel with the Iran situation.
Indonesia - this appears to be a really good example, along with Phillipines (1986). So what's different about Iran - why the repeated failures there?
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