Jon Johanning wrote:
>
> One other moral: successful revolutions do not depend on amassing more
> firepower than the "pigs." They depend on changing the minds of the
> police and armed forces so that the major part of them will desert and
> come over to the ranks of the revolutionaries.
Absolutely, though history teaches us that it's way easier to win over the army than the police. I suppose that's why in Romania, the police was armed and the army was not.
Joanna