{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Opinion | People power worked in Armenia. It won\u2019t work everywhere.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/173444706403/", "html": "<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/people-power-worked-in-armenia-it-wont-work-everywhere/2018/04/26/bd4f271a-497e-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?noredirect=on\">Opinion | People power worked in Armenia. It won\u2019t work everywhere.</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://quoms.tumblr.com/post/173435872262/opinion-people-power-worked-in-armenia-it-wont\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">quoms</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n\nWhen they don\u2019t or can\u2019t move people, demonstrations, marches and \u201coccupy\u201d movements are insufficient. It\u2019s not enough just to be there: The movement has to join or become a political party, the street leaders have to become politicians.<br/></p></blockquote>\n<p>anyone else ever think about how much anne applebaum just sucks</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>wasn\u2019t there a day\u2019s fluff last year when Julia Ioffe or Masha Gessen or one of The Atlantic\u2019s post-Soviet R2P types was described as \u201ca Russian (Polish?) Jew\u201d somewhere?</p><p>cause that tag did read as coming out of nowhere, but on thinking there is something, along the lines of<br/></p><p>\u201cborn into overlapping narratives of Eastern European betrayal and abandonment that none of the nationalist projects fully address, ended up with an emotional investment in post-Cold War NATO unlike basically anyone else in the world\u201d<br/></p>"}