It is somewhat surprising that there seems to be a kind of amnesia about historical examples of nonviolent revolutions, considering the reality that there are considerably more nonviolent successes than violent ones.
The Peoples’ Power revolution in the Philippines, the revolutions in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and the nonviolent movement that brought down the Berlin Wall, are not easy to overlook.
The Iranian revolution was almost entirely nonviolent.
The “Carnation Revolution” in Portugal, and the Mongolian revolution; the revolution that brought down Slobodan Milosovic, and the revolution in Georgia, were all nonviolent.
Revolution in the Dominican Republic, and the overthrow of the neoliberal regime in Ecuador…all nonviolent. We can even mention the “Cedar Revolution” in Lebanon that brought down the Syrian puppet regime.
The revolutions that dismantled the Soviet Union were almost all nonviolent.
Well, I guess it is not actually unusual that the collective memory of successful revolutionary movements would be erased from our minds…they do not want us to remember them because they do not want us to repeat them