East Germany, 1989 - Nonviolent mass protests (the Leipzig Monday Demonstrations) swelled from a few hundred to 300,000+ people. Within weeks, the Berlin Wall fell, leading to the collapse of communist East Germany. Chile, 1988 - Peaceful protests and a strategic “No” campaign against dictator Augusto Pinochet’s rule led to a democratic transition, despite the regime’s violent repression. 🧵4/6