CrossTalk: Traces of Velvet Revolutions

Twenty years after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, what is the legacy of the peoples power that brought about the velvet revolutions?

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News & Politics

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• Peter Lavelle
• CrossTalk
• Velvet Revolutions
• Romania revolution bloody
• Collapse of Soviet Union
• USSR collapse
• revolution Georgia
• Czech Republic revolution
• Ariel Cohen
• Christoph Horstel
• Dmitry Babich
• Elena Hanga
• Елена Ханга

[vacinestoxic]

I love Russia Today!!

[MoscowMaestro]

They threw off Communist madmen, and now they're serving Yankee madmen.

[suvorov4]

Notice how Cohen got all nervous as soon as Bilderberg Group was mentioned.

[barisurum]

The way peter says "yelena hanga!" at the end of every intro with an unnecessary stress on it makes me LOL :)

[SEFARAD2K4]

The Jew "Cohen" needs to stfu. It figures he likes capitalism and $. Socialism in Eastern Europe was the best system ever, today it still strikes fear in these degenerates!

[Sloby89]

democracy = the people rule , but Germans understand that West were bowing down to western stooges, and East were bowing down to eastern stooges. So what was the real difference between East and West they were basically answering to someone. So it was the same shit but different asshole. Remember France and UK were against German reunification!

[IAMDOPED]

i agree thats my first impression of him he remembers me of the orwellian newscasts ^^

[dietermaas]

Yes, and it isn't only that, to me the word "democracy", what it really means, is reading, listening to the real needs of the human being. "National interests" is not the human being, & also "western democracy" isn't, that is like a brand, a specific strategy, an ideology, coming from the anglo-american "cartel", but what really counts, is how the human heart, the real needs of everybody is being heard or not. And it seems to me, that the "western product" isn't selling so well any more.

[dietermaas]

I found this discussion quite inspiring. Why? Well, I don't know, I am trying to get really "beyond" ideology, not in the sense of the "ideological" use of the word ideology, but in the sense of using the word "Inwardly", meaning trying to get beyond my own "head" programming, and seeing on the one hand people, summarized as "the people" e.g. of one country or the world, and what I call "their real needs" and then on the other hand, words, and the "ideas" of elites. helpful with that, thanks!

[takadi]

I watch this show sometimes and the host is a complete dick. The conversation would be much more civil without him

[flyhead2]

The format of this kind of show is terrible. It reduces potentially thought-provoking or informative debate into vulgar bickering and is to discussion programmes what reality TV is to documentaries. It's down-dumbing and cheap entertainment of the worst order. Enough already!

[VictorSobakus]

And what good evidence do you have that disproves "ZIONIST CONSPIRACY ISRAEL IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL HEIL HITLER." theories?