Tag: Velvet Revolution
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Why revolutions always end in corruption
Revolutions begin with moral outrage. People rise because they believe society has become intolerably unjust. They see corruption, inequality, oligarchic control, repression, poverty, censorship, police brutality, foreign domination, or complete institutional decay. Consequently, revolutionary movements emerge with enormous emotional energy. At first, revolutions appear morally pure. Crowds gather in streets believing they fight for freedom,…
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Communists have been destroying lives. What about capitalism?
Since the Czechoslovak communists have taken over the power in the late 1940’s huge repression occurred. Around 250 000 people were interned, 248 executed and 8 000 died in prisons. All because of the Stalinist repressions. Most of the people executed were communists sentenced in fabricated trials (some of them, of course, were spies). Klement…