sootyj
Tuesday 31st July 2012 2:09pm
51,287 posts
Some of them have.
Thing is the reason the Iranian spring failed so spectacularly is it was a middle class uprising.
The working classes rather liked; missiles, stonings and free government food and oil. Even if it meant living like stone age, misogynist, tramps. And the rich rather liked well being rich and treating everyone like shit.
So protestors found themselves beaten, killed and bummed by hords of enraged peasants with sticks. Which the government rounded up in buses from the country side and paid in kebabs.
Similar issues in Cuba.
In Russia the peasants rather like the lights staying on, naughty petty criminals getting a thorough shoeing from the cops, affordable food and lashings of vodka. And the slightly less stinking rich have no interest in rocking the boat.
It was when the peasants went hungry in Egypt and the USSR that things started to happen.
So know this dictators. Bread and circuses!
Quote: Nat Wicks @ July 31 2012, 3:02 PM BST
They really need one. It's a revolution that I wholeheartedly support, and think is a long time coming. Along with North Korea (will never happen).
DPRK will never have a revoloution as long as China and South Korea don't want to feed 22,000,000 traumatised refugees with no useful skills.
So DPRK gets truly epic quantities of grain and fuel oil.
Although rumours keep floating around that PRC may one day just take over out of a mixture of irritation and embarassment.