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Comment by gerikson

> give an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime

DDR, People's Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...

Basically the only country in Europe that didn't exit Communism peacefully was Yugoslavia, and the reason for the violence wasn't Communism, it was resurgent nationalism/religion.

parent gerikson 6 years ago

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