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cyberge99today at 12:59 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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tokaitoday at 2:04 AM

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.