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nonsense.

1989 people in several parts of central Europe rose up for freedom--courageously

there was no need to rise up in central Europe: the regime collapsed by itself, primarily for financial reasons. The countries were surveyed by the West years before, and given IMF loans. The rest in 89 was literally a show, albeit not in theatres but on screens. the regimes just morphed, like now in China.



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