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minus-squareanotherspinelessdem@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down9·1 month agoAre you saying the Eastern Bloc was more democratic and responsive to public pressure than the liberal democracies of the West?
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·1 month agoYou can interpret it how you want, that wasn’t your statement I refuted. Matter of fact remains, that those were peaceful protests and they reached their goal.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·1 month agoIn the sense that they gave up and became liberal democracies, yes.
Are you saying the Eastern Bloc was more democratic and responsive to public pressure than the liberal democracies of the West?
You can interpret it how you want, that wasn’t your statement I refuted. Matter of fact remains, that those were peaceful protests and they reached their goal.
In the sense that they gave up and became liberal democracies, yes.