The repressed express

It is evident that in both of these cases the general population is rallied together to revolt against their old rules. Even though they are told from different perspectives, the main situation is quite evident. Like many of the other revolutions we studied, these are stories of repressed people that are rallied to speak out. They are encouraged by their new leaders, or governments and they take the opportunity to express their feeling about their prior leaders. They have been keeping these feelings bottled up and now they express them with little fear with they help of their new leaders. They both evidently have the same goals of letting the general population speak out and not feel repressed with their leaders, and also to make their prior leaders pay for not letting them speak.

new routine

I interviewed some friends of my fathers about the cold war and they had vague memories of it affecting their childhood. One of them said that he remembered that there were constant bomb drills in school, but other than that he did not remember much. His wife though had a bit more memories of it. She remembered that her best friend’s family had built a bomb shelter in their backyard. Since she spent most of her time at her friend’s house she practiced drill with them. She said that when she was little she did not understand the gravity of the situation. Overall it did not affect them much, it just added another routine into their daily lives.