Color Revolutions Edit Meaning

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Former Soviet-Union states and Eastern European republics that made their own counter-versions of the people's Red Revolution. Here's a list:

-Velvet: Czech Republic (1989).

-Rose: former-Russia state Georgia (2003).

-Orange: former-Russia state Ukraine (2004). Also called the 'Chestnut' revolution.

-Tulip: former-Russia state Kyrgystan (2005).

The Arab world has its own kind of color revolutions:

-Purple: Iraq's 2005 1st elections.

-Cedar: Lebanon's end of the Syrian 'occupation' or military prescence in 2005.

See revolution, russia, iraq, lebanon