Velvet Revolution 25 years ago today

[Bruce Wayne]

And also my other half's birthday. Havel was a great man.

 

[Pat's Van]

the velvet revolution eh ??

sandwiched somewhere between the "mohair movement" and the "days of denim" was it ?

 

[Kev The Rat]

the worst thing that could have happened to Europe in the last 25 years was the fall of the iron curtain.

Since then we have had genocides in Yugoslavia, in the middle east, and now major issues in the Ukraine to name but 3 major flashpoints.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

the worst thing that could have happened to Europe in the last 25 years was the fall of the iron curtain.

Since then we have had genocides in Yugoslavia, in the middle east, and now major issues in the Ukraine to name but 3 major flashpoints.

You clearly didn't have to live behind it

 

[Pat's Van]

the worst thing that could have happened to Europe in the last 25 years was the fall of the iron curtain.

Since then we have had genocides in Yugoslavia, in the middle east, and now major issues in the Ukraine to name but 3 major flashpoints.

...not to mention a spontaneous Hasselhoff medley

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

You clearly didn't have to live behind it

......clearly not, posting about how great it was from behind his computer screen on a forum where he can freely express his views.....

 

[Bungle]

...not to mention a spontaneous Hasselhoff medley

More sickening than anything that had gone before it.

 

[Pat's Van]

More sickening than anything that had gone before it.

I heard they tried to put the fkn wall back up

 

[rascal]

From one totalitarian state to a quasi-totalitarian state only a couple of decades later. Whoopie.

 

[bluemangroup]

From one totalitarian state to a quasi-totalitarian state only a couple of decades later. Whoopie.

But a quasi totalitarian state with some lovely velvet curtains, if I've read the thread correctly. Which I have.

 

[Kev The Rat]

You clearly didn't have to live behind it

boo fckuing hoo.

id rather have a crackdown on civil liberties, than a situation that at points has descended into genocide.

 

[Kev The Rat]

......clearly not, posting about how great it was from behind his computer screen on a forum where he can freely express his views.....

never said it was great - i'm saying the alternative of millions of lives lost, which is what has happened, is by far the greater of the two evils.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

boo fckuing hoo.

id rather have a crackdown on civil liberties, than a situation that at points has descended into genocide.

Maybe have a read of this if you think ethnic cleansing didn't go on under Soviet occupation.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Curtain-Crushing-Eastern-1944-56/dp/0713998687

 

[RAFUH]

Has there been a significant period in human history without ethnic cleansing/genocide/mass murder for ideology somewhere in the world?

 

[neil999]

Has there been a significant period in human history without ethnic cleansing/genocide/mass murder for ideology somewhere in the world?

yep inbetween adam and eve being 'created' and cain and able being born, then cain started the whole nasty business..

oh well