Posted on 12/02/2016 10:35:55 AM PST by C19fan
4 shares A A Almost everyone got the Arab Spring wrong. At a casual glance, the Middle East and North Africa appeared to be sprouting political liberals like daisies at the tail end of 2010, when a nonviolent revolution in Tunisia spread to Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Tunisias autocratic Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fell in a matter of weeks, followed a month later by Egypts Hosni Mubarak. Rebellions then broke out in Libya against the tyrannical Muammar Qaddafi and in Syria against Bashar al-Assad.
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A very good link, thanks for posting it and your comment about Lenin.
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