The East Euro liberals of 1989 were not "revolutionaries", they were weaklings whose success was based entirely Gorbachev being a liberal who refused to use force to crush dissent to exorcise the Stalinist past. Without his hesitation, the Warsaw Pact would exist to this day.
Gorbachev and his advisors sidelined hardliners within the Polish Politburo and actively courted and promoted Solidarnosc, saying there would be no support for a crackdown against liberal protestors and that the future of Poland was not any of Soviet Russia's business.
In East Germany, preparations were being made for a Tiannamen Square style crackdown by the Stasi that would have almost certainly been a complete success, but the operation was called off by Gorbachev, who had Honecker removed and replaced with Willi Stoph.
As Mark Kramer notes in the screencaps above, had someone else been in charge of the USSR like Tikhonov or Grigoriy Romanov, the events of 1989 would not have unfolded as they did. Gorbachev's valued liberal humanism over Marxism and that was decisive.
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Gorbachev's liberalism was so extensive that Polish nationalists smuggled propaganda into the Baltic states advocating for independence, undermining the integrity of the USSR. East Euro states caused a diplomatic crisis in January 1991 after a Soviet crackdown on protests.
Members of Solidarnosc like (((Adam Michnik))) were visiting West Ukraine and encouraging separatists there to take a bolder stance in favour of independence publically and openly talking about a Polish-Ukrainian alliance against Soviet communism. Gorbachev did nothing.
How any of this speaks to any real courage or masculine virtue on the part of the East Euro shitlibs who cried about how communism is ebil because it is LE FASCIST as opposed to Gorbachev's personal weakness and ineptitude escapes me.
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Then again, I did not render myself infertile with CBT like this historically illiterate buffoon. Better blame the tankies (and Nazis too!!! (THEY BOTH DON'T LIKE JOOS OMG MOST EVIL THING YOU CAN DO!!!!!))
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