Do you have a photo of your revolution? Is there an image that captures your movement, or an image of a revolutionary you?!
Jocelyn
Brooklyn
Other/Almost
I have always been struck by a description of the Bolshevik Revolution written by an extraordinary and unfamous witness, Bertha Fox. She wrote her story as part of an autobiography contest for Jewish immigrants sponsored by the historical organization, YIVO in 1942. "Now everyone emerged from their cellars, from their dark, forlorn watches. They found their voices on a porch or a corner or a rooftop. Speaker after speaker representing Lenin and Trotsky marched to music through the street with their deep red flags. People played and spoke and sang. It was lively and joyful. They opened the prisons and freed the political prisoners--arise liberated ones! The streets were packed like Broadway on New Year's Eve when you just have to go with the flow of the crowd. People shouted, 'Long live freedom! Long live the Russian people! Long live internationalism! Hurrah!'" (My Future Is in America, p. 224). She's also reflective about "lessons," in her own way...meaning she has political insight....
adrienne
NYC
Other/Almost
Here's a comment (I am not personally connected) Germany needs to step up and show us how they went from the most horrible totalitarian society to a full working democracy...They, of course didn't do it alone. we the US occupied them for a long time and taught how to be a democracy. what do germans of that generation have to say?
Caroline Schimmel
Greenwich, CT
Other/Almost
Don't forget Portugal! In 1974 we were on a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic, scheduled to arrive in Lisbon. When the (Norwegian) captain was informed the military coup, he hesitated only for 1 day, and landed us there. Yes, we were among the only tourists, but yes, the military had carnations in their guns and we had a wonderful time and the country had a new constitution within 2 years.
chava
Manhattan
Other/Almost
Those of us who marched against the Vietnam War can claim to have "deposed" a President...Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run again (sound familiar?). One thing about the Sixties was - they worked, for a while.
