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cyberge99 | 3 days ago

Never in history has an authoritarian ceded power without massive violence.

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tokai|3 days ago

The dissolution of the USSR was not massively violent.

Frederick VII of Denmark, an absolute monarch, introduced parliamentarism without any violence or even broad public pressure.

And thats just what I can remember without digging.