His death was a signal for some of the suppressed anger at the bureaucratic regimes of Eastern Europe to surface.
Firstly, from multinational corporations using their new global mobility to head for low tax regimes.
We've shown that for regimes that choose defiance, there are serious consequences.
Today, however, advances in technology have made it possible for military regimes to survive indefinitely in the face of massive popular discontent.
Two centuries of French political regimes Absolute monarchy under the bourbon dynasty until the Revolution of 1789.