What caused the counter-revolutionary wave of 1989?
What caused the counter-revolutionary wave of 1989?
I know things were really bad in 1989, but what made it so bad that people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments?
people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments
Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?
Here are some resources on it. In most cases, it was a combination of internal revisionism and Western infiltration:
- Bulgaria and Albania (chapter 51/page 314)
- GDR (chapter 3/page 113)
- Romania
- Soviet Union
Hakim’s video on the fall of the USSR: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w72mLI_FaR0&feature=sharec
disillusionment with the government, decades of stagnation and lack of revolutionary spirit
That's a very vague way to say that a planned economy going down with USA doing actual humanitarian flights with actual food doesn't really help people to trust in any system.