But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions, such as in Poland,and changes in Moscow brought it down.

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But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions in the region brought it down, leading to the re-unification of Germany, the end of the Cold War and geopolitical shifts in Europe and beyond.

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Perhaps swept up by the historical poetry of young people facing down a tyrant's thugs, Mr Cameron compared the young protesters of Cairo to other peaceful movements for change, from the velvet revolutions in central and eastern Europe to the civil-rights struggle in America.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot