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Nippon-Gakki t1_j1qvskg wrote

Reply to comment by SpindriftRascal in Hardliner Clerics In Iran Demand More Executions, Amputations by aqua_zesty_man

This is what always ends up happening. The more bloody the people on power are, the bloodier the revolution. It might take a while but history shows it almost always happens.

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MetrobiusSulla t1_j1repzs wrote

> This is what always ends up happening

Yes, we all remember the revolutions that drove Stalin, Mao, Pinochet and Leopold II out of power.

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MarkHathaway1 t1_j1rr3go wrote

Changes to Soviet countries have been remarkably peaceful if you think of all the purges and "big" killings. It doesn't mean that a change away from Putin today, however peaceful looking, wouldn't still be quite violent. The change in China has been somewhat gradual, but the general improvement in living standards UPWARD has made that doable. In Iran and Afghanistan the repressive regimes (whatever their religion or other beliefs & policies) is tearing people limb from limb and destroying what good lives they had -- sending the countries DOWNWARD into chaos.

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Nostonica t1_j1tl1lj wrote

Stalin - Won WW2, popular support and a good grasp on the apparatus of the state, not going anywhere.
Mao - More likely to get a bunch of red book wielding people causing a issue if you did this, Also founder points and a desire to project party unity.
Pinochet - I'm sure the US/UK would have issues with his removal, maybe intervene.
Leopold II - Belgium eventually couldn't take the excesses of the Congo and took it off him.

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