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Dominic

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The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

The crowds are enormous, though.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I mean, the crowds are vast.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I mean, we're talking about millions of people sometimes on the streets.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I mean, it really is.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I think he taps something.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

It's not just about a small group of extremists.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I think he taps something huge.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

A sense that you know the country had changed so much in the previous ten years things spiraling out of control and people yearned for a kind of reassurance Traditional they saw its traditional values a sense of solidarity all of those kinds of things they felt that he and his Sort of faction offered.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

What about the last photo that you've got of a bass?

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

This is armed mullahs marching past the Ayatollah's house.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

What I like about this, there were lots of photos taken in the Iranian Revolution.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I mean, photographers were always drawn to the women in their kind of black cloaks and their khadors.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

I mean, so much of the imagery of that was really unsettling to Westerners because they saw it as part of the oppression of women, more not understandably.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

But it's interesting how prominent women are now in these photos.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

Yeah, with the guns.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

Nobody's smiling.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

Everybody's grim-faced.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

Yeah.

The Rest Is History
Revolutions: Iran, the Prague Spring, and Ceaușescu’s Fall | History in Photos

Can I ask one more question about Abbas and his photographs of the Iranian Revolution?