HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Velvet Revolution, Ten-Day War, Loan Shark
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When you ask someone why something happened people tell you what happened. They hardly tell you about the events leading up to it. In summer of 1989 hungarian officials decided to open the borders between. The velvet revolution (end of communism in czechoslovakia). The end of the communist regime in romania (the killing of nicholai, the communist dictator and his wife) Useful to think of the collapse of communisation like the end of colonization and the end of natzism. The cold war was not a military thing, but communism really was from the inside of the system. Yugoslavia was kept out of these things, but they were no exception from these wars. 1991 began to fall apart under a series of successions. Croatia witnesses (movie, released in 2003) made 11 years after the war. Filmaker was criticised for trying to make an even- playing field. Their father was recently killed at the front.
