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Protestation (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Point seems to have been that it was a succesful non-violent revolution

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The article I posted above gets into this, but it was not. The British did not quit India because some guy went on a hunger strike, and they actively propagate pacifist myths like his because they are completely unthreatening.