-What do the Iranian people want?
-If the violence was so bad, why didn't outside nations intervene?
-Where's the UN?
Connections:
-Russian Revolution
-Stalin's Gulag/secret police
-Night of the Broken Glass
-political/social motif: secular versus religious
-Great Terror (random deaths and arrests)
Gut:
-this scene shows the flaws that fascism and communism both had
-terror and secret arrests are from the government, which is frightening to the public
-radical change in younger Iranian population's political mindset: too much radical change?
-the election was the start of a potential revolution, but it was smashed by terror and secret police forces - this is strikingly similar to Soviet communism (trying to prevent the domino effect)
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