• grue@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    the suffragette movements in the West

    You mean this suffragette movement?

    When by 1903 women in Britain had not been enfranchised, Pankhurst decided that women had to “do the work ourselves”; the WSPU motto became “deeds, not words”. The suffragettes heckled politicians, tried to storm parliament, were attacked and sexually assaulted during battles with the police, chained themselves to railings, smashed windows, carried out a nationwide bombing and arson campaign…


    the Salt Marches in India,

    Why is India partitioned, then? (Hint: take a look at the Muslim League’s tactics and goals.)


    the Singing revolution in the Baltics

    Kind of a special case; the USSR collapsed all by itself and didn’t try to oppose them.

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      You mean this suffragette movement?

      Yes. It was a peaceful movement. Their goals weren’t achieved through violence.

      Why is India partitioned, then?

      The goal of the movement was to end British rule over the subcontinent, and they achieved that goal.

      Kind of a special case; the USSR collapsed all by itself and didn’t try to oppose them.

      You’re not giving these people their credit. The Soviet Union was filled with violent factions that wanted to prevent dissolution and the end of communism. These people managed to literally sing their way to independence.