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vondur on March 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What made the Irish famine so deadly

Unfortunately the Revolutions of 1848 were violently suppressed. The forces of order were able to exploit the differences between the political reformers and the social reformers.

m4rtink on March 11, 2025 [–]

It still resulted in significant reforms in the end, even in Austria-Hungary, removing a lot of religion based persecution there for example.

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