Pictory

Khers

You are mostly right but not 100%. Iranians of the 60s and 70s are just what you said. Not all but a large numner including Marxist; Islamist and JM. However there are many who are not that way.

I am not nor are many people I know and they know. The new generation wants to live. They are sick of Imam Zaman *** and Felesteen! Goh be goorh pedar Felestin o Emam o Akhoond ha hamshoon.

....

 "Iranians are bad bad bad!

and we are mad mad mad"

And the choir

continues singing 

on this Iranian website.

ایرانی‌ لیاقت شاه را نداشت و هنوز هم نداره

ایرانی‌ قرن‌ها است (از زمان صفوی) که مثل سگ‌ آقای pavlov شرطی شده  که همینکه یه آخوندی دید به گریه بیفته و تو سر خودش بزنه و به یاد امام زمان بیفته.  چند قرن هم بود که هی‌ حزب درست میکردن و تظاهرات میکردن و چرت و پرت میگفتند تا بلکه یک طور بشه که یک آخوندِ سیدِ بنی قریش بیاد روشون حکومت کنه.  بالاخره هم موفق شدند.  شاه بیچاره می‌خواست که ایران رو به قرن بیستم بیاره.  و فکر میکرد که مردم ایران رو میتونه از جهالت قرن ۷ صحرای عربستان بیاره بیرون.  حالا میفهمیم که اون بخت برگشته چه اشتباهی‌ کرده بود.  مردم ایران لیاقت همین آخوند و چاه جمکران و تو سر زدن برای فلسطین و ولایت فقیه رو دارند.  همین و بس.  

ایرانی‌ لیاقت شاه را نداشت و هنوز هم نداره

ایرانی‌ قرن‌ها است (از زمان صفوی) که مثل سگ‌ آقای pavlov شرطی شده  که همینکه یه آخوندی دید به گریه بیفته و تو سر خودش بزنه و به یاد امام زمان بیفته.  چند قرن هم بود که هی‌ حزب درست میکردن و تظاهرات میکردن و چرت و پرت میگفتند تا بلکه یک طور بشه که یک آخوندِ سیدِ بنی قریش بیاد روشون حکومت کنه.  بالاخره هم موفق شدند.  شاه بیچاره می‌خواست که ایران رو به قرن بیستم بیاره.  و فکر میکرد که مردم ایران رو میتونه از جهالت قرن ۷ صحرای عربستان بیاره بیرون.  حالا میفهمیم که اون بخت برگشته چه اشتباهی‌ کرده بود.  مردم ایران لیاقت همین آخوند و چاه جمکران و تو سر زدن برای فلسطین و ولایت فقیه رو دارند.  همین و بس.  

درد و بلای شاه بخور ه فرق سر هر چی‌

کمونیست و جبهه ملی‌ و آخوند و اسلامیِ فلسطین پرست بی‌ وطن هست.  بر خلاف همه اون موجودات جهان وطنیِ ایران ستیز شاه قلبش برای ایران و ایرانی‌ میزد.  روحش شاد.   

Dear Masoud,

I am a Monarchist who does not necesarily think that the same system that we had in 1978 needs to be implemented in Iran's future.

I take issue with many of the things you and Jebhe Melli say and stand for. This is mostly because I have a simple and straight forward idea about truth and future of Iran.

We must operate on the truth and some of your points about SAVAK crimes was valid. But you have to ask yourself 2 questions:

1. Was Shah directly controlling SAVAK when those crimes happened?
2. Do you think the Revolution was the best way to react to these problems?

Now about my straight forward idea. It's very simple: THE REVOLUTION WAS THE PROBLEM.

None of these LAJAN that we are in would have happened if there was no revolution. I know many Iranians agreed with the revolution at the time but now are unhappy. Well, this is the direct consequence.

So, forgive me for being VERY SKEPTICAL of groups who participated directly in bringing down our government and Monarch in 1979. Jebhe Melli and Mojahedeen Khalgh both HELPED bring down Shah and there is no denying this. JM even betrayed Bakhtiar who was Iran's last savior. So, I really wonder how we should trust them again when then are so directly responsible for what has happened?

Most people know that human right problems was getting better and would have solved itself in a few years. If Prince Reza came to power in 1982 in a normal succession, Iran would be far better than what it is now. With ensaf, we have to face the TRUTH before we make any progress.

-D.

Shah; Mossadegh; VF

Dear friends Shah and Mossadegh both made a lot of mistakes. But they were both patriotic and Iran loving people. VF on the other hand hated Iran. To him Iran was just an instrument to advance his version of Islam.

No fair person would compare Shah or Mossadegh to VF in particular Khomeini. I was talking to my mother about Shah. My mother reminded me of all the corruption. I replied that is in human nature. I know police who are on the take in America. Western bankers who steal more than any Iranian imagined. The PM on Italy "Silvio Berlusconi" is not just corrupt but brags about it! Therefore I think corruption is a part of human nature. And the Shah was very human with all the faults.

But treason and nation hating is a unique character of MKO and VF. So by all means trash Shah and Mossadegh. But they were and will be remembered as real Iranians. With all their faults they loved Iran. Something neither MKO nor VF does.

Massoud Jaan Your Strategy is Not a Strategy

It's personal insecurity comforted in your confusion by Wishful thinking at best ...

As for You Folks to come and defend us Monarchists when we are attacked ... Who ever asked you to defend us anyway or worry about our whereabout or Spill crocodile Tears on our eventual predicament ? ...

I'd rather you didn't extend an Olive Branch only to demand something from us in return which is not bargainable in our view: The Crown of Iranzamin ! 

The Rest of your assessments are to put it quite bluntly ... Childish !

You make a great deal of generalizations, engage in comparative history without the slightest balance or understanding of what you are talking about including in ideological terms and most importantly overlook the historical context, social and cultural realities surrounding much of your distorted claims ranging from Pahlavi Fascism, to Human Rights violations,to  international relations, to so called corruption and I will stop there.

A minimum of objectivity and balance would be welcome but I am afraid you are totally blinded by a desire of what you deem is a democratic mindset but which in reality is personal insecurity and lack of curiosity.

Ignorance is the first step towards nihilism ...

No wonder you folks were misleaded by the likes of shariati :

HISTORY FORUM: Mashallah Ajoudani on Intellectuals and the Revolution

If you folks were truly so bright and truly understood the political mechanisms and historical evolution of democratic thought you would have known better that Religion and Politics don't mix:

GOOD READ: All You Need to Know About The Enlightment Philosophers

So to come out of the blue to lecture us Monarchists on the virtues of democracy, progress and modernity is not only hypocritical but arrogant given that you Folks put Iran on the Medieval Track of Self Destruction:

SOURCES OF FURY:Nader Naderpour on origins of IRI's "Death Slogans" towards US and Israel

YOUR REPUBLIC is accountable for THIS:

SARBAZ: Fereidoun Farrokhzad helps child soldiers of Iran Iraq War

Not Our Monarchs:

Shahbanou Farah Speaks about Kanoon Institute's Legacy (VOA)

And I am yet to hear You Folks Apologize for all the misery you imposed on our generation and on that of Iranians in this time and age due to your very Own POOR CHOICE !

Vaghean Keh ? ... Khejalat Ham Khoub Cheezyeh ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mIy97_rlo&feature=related

بهترین حرکت سیاسی شاه

Dariush jaan, explaining my strategy and opinions

Dariush:

Well Fine Massoud Jaan ... Be My Guest ... Then What ? ...

by Darius Kadivar on Mon May 23, 2011 03:19 AM PDT

Be My Guest ...

Suggest a Blue Print for Change that will rally the large majority of Iranians and turn Iran into the Wonderful Paradise and Brilliant Stable Democracy you have in mind and keep boasting about.

If it's So Obvious then why are you having such a difficult time achieving it other than making wishful comments ? ...

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Dariush jaan,

You are asking 2 questions here. One, is what to do (on Iranian.com and in the real world inside Iran and outside Iran)? Two, why JM has not succeeded in achieving our goal of establishing a democratic secular republic?

Let me answer the second question first. The Iranian people are divided into many groups (pro-democracy, leftist, monarchist, reformist fundamentalist, hardline fundamentalist, Islamic liberals). And significantly, each of the above major grouping is FURTHER divided into many many sub-groups. There is very little consensus in Iranian politics.

I have made my estimates for the social base of each group.

//iranian.com/main/blog/masoud-kazemzadeh/what-do-iranians-want

JM is the main pro-democracy group. It is my opinion that if there is a referendum, then our option of democratic secular republic will win. But our social base does NOT sacrifice life and limb for the overthrow of the terrorist regime. Moreover, our leadership and our rank-and-file have not done justice to our potential.

Now to question one. As I have said repeatedly, in my opinion our primary enemies are the VF regime and NIAC. My opinion may be right or it may be wrong. It is my opinion. Based on this opinion, my policy recommendations follow. I support the broadest possible coalition against VF regime.  I support the broadest possible coalition against NIAC.  For example, when I see monarchists oppose and attack VF, they will have my support. When I see monarchists oppose NIAC, they will have my support. And as you know when VF supporters attack monarchists, I have defended monarchists. And when pro-NIAC posters attack monarchists, I have defended monarchists.

And when monarchists attack JM, Mossadegh, and pro-democracy forces, then I will defend us and attack monarchists.

It is my hope that monarchists concentrate their time and energy attacking VF regime. It is my hope that monarchists concentrate their time and energy countering and attacking NIAC.

When monarchists attack the pro-democracy forces, then we will retaliate. Then the biggest winner is VF regime or NIAC.

On the real world. The JM inside Iran and INF-Abroad concentrate almost all our activities on countering and attacking the VF regime. We also try to educate the people through our publications on democracy and analysis of the situation. We are building our rank and file.

I hope this is helpful.

Best wishes,

Masoud

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Shah made many mistakes and I have written about several (see my track). However, the point is not whether Shah made mistakes. All do. But if one is old enough to remember Shah's time (good, bad, ugly) and knowingly/willingly equates the people/regime/state of Iran & Iranian affairs, with VF, then one is the embodiment of the poem of my previous comment. I mentioned Milani's comment about Shah because my comments about him are on IC and he was anti-Shah and no 'fan' of Shah. As for his book, I need not read reviews because I read the book itself. However, I have read the review you are referring to and it is less than accurate or unbiased.

What happened in 1979 was a disaster of historic proportions that was confluence of many factors, the single most significant of which was Green belt followed by dual containment and related matters, and helped with Shah's political mistakes, and Iran's historic ambivalence (See //iranian.com/main/2010/jan/center-univer...), and topped with the Dual Containment policy. I have written how IRR is the masterpiece of the very enemy it screams against and the bastard child of the extreme capital.

Again comparing Shah (or Mossadegh) with VF and the rapist republic is ignorant and mean spirited. As is the constant attack of Shah supporters on Mossadegh and vice versa (//iranian.com/main/2009/oct/culture-death), and assuming that Mossadegh (with plenty of flaws and errors as well) is same as the leftovers that remained as JM (ala Bazargan et al). We need to keep a sense of balance when we speak of our IRANIAN leaders //iranian.com/main/blog/noosh-afarin/all-..., and again when we compare them to these alien weirdos ruling Iran today.

As for you MK, my comments above are inclusive of you. After 32 years of watching rape and plunder of Iranian culture, history, well being and very existence and as it continues, you feel obliged to write aout a half baked report (seems to be your specialty) that while inexcusable, pales in number, scale and depth to anything under IRR (that I have covered in some detail in other blogs a long time ago) and then compare what we had to VF. perhaps that explains why you find yourself in my poem subconsciously.That is something no review can fix.

Oktaby

Dear Masoud,

Thank you for your response. I certainly agree with you when you say:

We, the Iranian people, deserve a LOOOOOOOOOOOOT better than the Shah’s and the terrorist regime’s forms of tyranny

Regards. 

SOS, I completley agree with you. It's all works of the Brits

Dayie  jan also says the same thing too.

But you forgot to add that Brits are controlled by Mormons, and the Mormons are controlled by the jews, and the jews are funded by these aliens from outer space. I saw all of this, the whole thing myself, by my own eyes, on TV, it was on X-Files, so it must be true.

Pahalvis werer the best thing that happened to Iran since sliced white bread. They even offered you a free membership in their Hezb Rastakhiz Party, or gave you a passport to leave your country. Just how much more love do you want?

Amir jaan

Dear Amir 1973,

I agree with pretty much everything I have read posted by you. I do not recall ever reading anything from you that I disagreed with. Please continue your wonderful contributions to this site. You write like a scholar.

You are right that Maoist China, Khmer Rouge, and Idi Amin were worse than the Shah. The Amnesty International report came out in 1976 and was about the state of HR in 1975.

Mao did commit genocide (the latest estimates are around 40-44 million). But this was not done in 1975.

Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. If I am not mistaken the truly genocidal stuff began later (1977?). The data on Khmer Rouge’s HR for 1975 was probably not available for AI when they were writing their 1976 report.

Idi Amin did much of his mass killings in 1971-73 period.

In South American, other competition for Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were Gen. Pinochet and the Argentinian junta. Pinochet killed about 3,000 and almost all of them in 1973. Argentinian junta also did a lot of nasty stuff, and the estimate is around 10,000 death during the so-called dirty war.

For the period 1975, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was certainly one of the worst human rights violaters in the world. The AI report singled out about 5 regimes, and the Shah’s was one of them.

The Shah’s horrendous repression including horrendous torture was done to high school children who merely wrote a simple ensha. Pinochet and Argentinians were killing armed guerrillas. I am witness to the SAVAK brutally beating up my classmate in 1 Nazari in 1975 for the SOLE crime of not signing the membership roll for Rastakhiz Party. Pinochet and Argentinians did not come to the classroom of some 15 year olds and torture them for refusing to join the ruling party.

We, the Iranian people, deserve a LOOOOOOOOOOOOT better than the Shah’s and the terrorist regime’s forms of tyranny.

As the saying goes, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.  As pro-democracy activits, YOU and I, have a responsibility to make sure those fascistic tortures done to the Iranian people would not be done again.  There are many monarchists who want to come back to power and do the same damn thing.  If they do not apologize for their crimes why is there any doubt that they will not do the same things again? 

Best regards,

Masoud

1970's Amnesty International Report is BLOOD LIBEL

Mr. Kazemzadeh, the enemies of Pahlavi Monarchy fed Amnesty International a bunch of lies about Savak. The countries with the worst human rights violations include: Russia (10 million), China (50 million), and Britain (1 millions Kenyans, 3 million Indians in Bangladesh, 3 million Irish, 5 million Iranians during the British Islamic Regime). What kind of a moron of a professor are you? The Dynasty with the worst human rights violations in Iran in the past 200 years is the Kadjar Dynasty - those bastards and their leader Mossadegh, born of a syphilitic father which explains his duplitious nature and his nervous tics.The Kadgars, the mongolian turkish dynasty started their dynasty on theft and slaughter of Iranians.  These Kajar bastards have the worst human rights record in Iran. The Pahlavi's are a victim of Radical Islamic Terrorists and Communists which were funded by our best friend, Britain. 

آنکس که نداند و نداند که نداند، بر جهل مرکب آباد الدهر بماند

OKtaby,

Here is an excellent critique of Milani's book on the Shah by one of the very TOP historians of Iran.

//iranian.com/main/news/2011/05/23-6

Have YOU read this review?  Or YOU prefer not to know.

:-)

Masoud

Dear Masoud,

I think you know that I have a great deal of respect for you and probably agree with the vast majority of your political sentiments. And let me also state that I am not a monarchist and would consider the "ideal" form of government (if such a thing exists) to be a secular democratic republic. But, I have to disagree with your latest post. Frankly, Amnesty International's claims re: the Shah's human rights record (which are always, and I mean always, bandied about the likes of Chomsky and others) are absurd on their very face. There is no doubt whatsoever that the Shah's regime practiced torture and extrajudicial killings. No doubt whatsoever. But to say, as AI claimed, that "No country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran" is to state that the Pahlavi regime had a worst human rights record than:

1) Maoist China (tens of millions dead) 

2) Khmer Rouge (1-2 million dead)

3) Idi Amin (200,000-300,000 killed)

North Korea; various Latin America, Asian and African military juntas; Baathist Syria and Iraq. The list goes on and on. Do you really believe that the human rights record in Pahlavi Iran was worse than the above-mentioned regimes? Really?

Why do I think the "data" on which the AI report was based comes from the same sources which claimed that "15,000 were killed or injured in Jaleh Square" (real number was 64 killed) or that "60,000 people gave their lives during the Islamic Revolution", as has been absurdly claimed by some?

Statira on Shah's Fascistic Tortures

Dear Statira,

The Shah’s regime committed some of the most horrendous crimes against humanity against the Iranian democrats. Here I posted the savage fascistic torture and murder of our pro-democracy journalist Karimpour Shirazi:

//iranian.com/main/news/2011/03/26-5

That is just one example. When I have time, I will post what the savage monarchists did to Sarhang Sakhaee.

Among SAVAK’s tortures was slowing BURNING and cooking political prisoners. One of the most common tortures by monarchists was rape of male political prisoners with soft drink bottles. Many high school kids were tortured by SAVAK merely for writing ensha (composition) critical about the Shah. Many university students were tortured for the sole crime of forming book reading groups.

If YOU respect human rights and oppose torture, rape of political prisoners, then you too should condemn the brutal savage tyranny of the Shah.  If YOU support of speech, freedom of political parties, free elections, then you HAVE to condemn the dictatorship of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Many in the Shah’s regime were actual Nazis. For example, Dariush Houmayn was the youth leader of SUMEKA Party (Hezb Socialist Va Melli Keshvar Iran), which was Iran’s official NAZI party. SUMEKA was one of the groups that participated on the 1953 coup on the side of the Shah.

I hope this info was helpful.

Masoud

Amnesty International on the Shah's Human Rights Record

Dear Statira,

You do not have to take my words. But I think, any honest person should accept the words of Amnesty International. The following are what Amnesty International published in its 1976 report.

In a 1976 document, Amnesty International detailed some of SAVAK's torture practices and stated that the shah's regime was one of the worst human rights violators in the world."

//www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2560000065/human-rights-abuses-shahist.html

By 1976, the Shah's rule had evolved into such a brutal tyranny that Amnesty International declared that Iran had, "the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief. No country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran."

//www.politicalcortex.com/story/2007/6/4/135042/8808

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Are YOU willing to accept what I wrote was honest and truthful about the Shah’s human rights record?

Best,

Masoud

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oktaby khan, was Savak's coperation with hojatieh, "blindly helping to hand Iran to Mollah's?"

Was creating a Sepah Din (as a part of the White Revolution,) "blindly helping to hand Iran to Mollah's?"

Was a boom in creation of all kinds of Hossanieh, Mehdieh, Masjid all over the country

"blindly helping to hand Iran to Mollah's?"

Was creating a single-party system Rastakhiz " blindly helping to hand Iran to Mollah's?"

Was executing, incarcerrating, torturing, and exiling all the nationalsit and leftists and giving a free hand to mullah, "blindly helping to hand Iran to Mollah's?" 

IR is nothing but aproduct of moanrchy.

Someone needs to man up, and own it. I wouldn't be holding my breath though.

Instead I present to you, this most  beautiful song, it should remind all why shah had zero, not a single iota of legal letigimacy to begin with, cheers

HOUSE OF 109 - MINA REZVANI

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PWI1mg47bg

P.S. Milani's book stands out. MK has posted a trenchant review of it. Was wondering what you though about it.

آنکس که نداند و نداند که نداند، بر جهل مرکب آباد الدهر بماند

Not a function of education or lack thereof. Nor has to do with monarchy and republic. I was not a fan of shah and have my differences with DK about Dr. Milani. However, I recommend reading Milani's latest along a slew of other good books on the topic. Even Milani suggests 'history is on Shah's side'. Those of you who blindly equate Shah and VF, and repeat ad nauseum the old cliche's about Sheikh va Shah are likely of the same herd that blindly helped hand Iran to Mollah's. You are the embodiment of the title line of this comment.

Oktaby

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Dear Statira

I am not talking about MK. I am talking about general Shah haters. They are not parroting IR propaganda. They were saying these things long before IR. In fact their lies were one of the main reason for the revolution.

For example one of the so called "Mass Murders" was Cinema Rex. We all know that Shah had nothing to do with it. Rather it was the "revolutionaries" who did it. Then pinned it on the Shah. The rest of their stuff follows the same pattern. They come up with some accusation. Mostly it is pure fiction; sometime exaggeration and sometimes other peoples fault. They follow the well know rule of "repeat the same lie often and it becomes real". The problem is that many people believe them.

In fact most of them have managed to convince themselves of their own lies. Just read some of the comments here. One person claims people in Iran "are happy". I guess that is why millions left. Another one says the only one who leave are the rich. Do we have 5-10 million rich Iranians? If not then what are they doing outside Iran? They are not there for tourism; they are immigrating. But to a closed mind no amount of logic will matter. They have made their minds up. The real future is with the young generation. Their minds are relatively unpolluted by the 60s nonsense. They have seen the Islamic "paradise" first hand. Therefore they know how "happy" they are and do not need others to remind them. And that is where change will come from not from fossilize ex-revolutionaries in the West.

Masood Kazemzadeh

You sound more hateful than anybody else in this board. You said,"

Instead of admitting that mass murder, mass torture, brutal savage fascistic dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi"

Do you have any  proof beyond reasonable doubt that Mohamad reza shah did those acts or just repeating the same nonsense mullahs telling us in the past 32 yrs? Be a reasonable human not a sheep.

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Agha jan, I asked for Mel Brooks and you give us Danny K, as an Italiano?They're both jewish , but Brooks is funnier.

Talking about Italians, the only interesting notion of sovereignty , your humble one has come across is Goirgio Agamben's studies in that field, his book " The Coming Community."  This is an amazing book, not only It  cured my insomnia, it's also very enlightening , cheers

Some "Blazzign Saddles" please.

MG Jan You Forgot to Mention the One which inspired the 1st One

RESTORATION: Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the 'Bill of Rights'

Including the leading Enlightment Philosopher of them all Who happened to be a Constitutional Monarchist ...

HISTORY OF IDEAS: Ian Davidson on Voltaire's "English Exile"

And Not a Bankrupt Jomhurykhah :

ZADIG & VOLTAIRE: French Minister's Blunder on Voltaire's Persian Tale

LOL

Had the other Revolutionary leaders particularly in the 20th Century and so called Intelligentsia including ours:

HISTORY FORUM: Mashallah Ajoudani on Intellectuals and the Revolution

done their homework correctly they may have well avoided imposing countless deaths and tragedies onto their very own people:

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: IRI's Reign of Terror Begins (BBC Report 1979)

For Contrary to what that other ANN TELECTUAL Slavoj Zizek claims There is No Virtue in Blind Terror:

VIRTUE IN TERROR: Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (BBC)

No One Highjacked Your Revolution ... You Simply Put Your Foot into the Wrong Shoes by chasing the WRONG ROLE MODELS:

pictory: Yazdi, Castro and Pretty Interpreter (1978)

pictory:Yazdi Meets Castro, Cuba (1980's)

pictory: Ahmad Khomeiny Training with Cuban guerrilla fighters (mid 1970's)

pictory: Ahmad Khomeiny receiving RPG-7 training in Lebanon (mid 1970's)

And Getting Your PRIORITIES WRONG:

SOURCES OF FURY:Nader Naderpour on origins of IRI's "Death Slogans" towards US and Israel

But Trust me It is Never Late to Learn from Past Mistakes by Responding Positively to Your Sovereign's Call ...

REZA's CALL: An Iranian Solidarnosc... by DK

RESPONDING TO REZA's CALL: An Iranian Solidarnosc in the Making ... by DK

Particularly given that 32 years later we seem to have found a common Role Model :

Iran's Shirine Ebadi and Poland's Lech Walesa

Iran's Farah Pahlavi and Poland's Lech Walesa

So Why Tally ? Let Us Off to the Castle:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdWXLUsz9Y

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A Comparative Study of Revolutions: shall we?

Daruis jan, in chronological order: American Revolution 1776, French Revoultution 1789, Bourgeois-Democratic Revolutions of 1848, Paris Commune 1871, Russian Revolution 1904, Constitutional Revolution Iran 1910, Mexican Revolution 1910, Russian Revolution 1917, Chinese Revolution 1949, Cuban Revolution 1959, Iranian Revlution 1979, Polish Solidariy 1980,...

What all these true revolutions have in common:  very unhappy people, insurrecting against the rulers and overthrowing them, establishing a new order.

Paris '68 didn't even come close to a 'revolutionary situation' proper, let alone a fully blown revolution (as defined by my favourite  kachal!) Du'Gaulle had the french army ready to crush, he never had to use it. Street protests ran their course and it was basically over.

Sorry for the long lecture, how about some " Blazzing Saddles" clips?

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happy people = no revolution ? Are you kidding ? ;0)

Paris Uprising May 1968

France had far less reasons to start a revolution in 1968 than anytime in it's entire history. They had democracy, Full employment and everything to be happy after the hardships of WWII. The only thing they could legitimately complain about was the Age and Cultural Gap between the Political elite which seemed to have been in power for too long and a spoiled youth thristy for Sex, Drugs and rock'n Roll.

Yet the Revolution did not lead to the toppling of the entire system.

As a matter of fact All the leading revolutionary Icons of that Era from François Mitterand to Jack Lang ended up becoming Filthy Rich Gauche Caviar Capitalists ...

Very Much like our own Brand I must say :

But then I guess there is a price to being Happy indeed ...

Robin Hood: Laugh Like a Man

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Regarding "I Repeat"

Here is one "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth"Joseph Goebbels". For reference see: 

//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels