Comments on: Top 10 Significant Historical Coups d’Etat

By: Valentine Anthony

Valentine Anthony — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:49:24 +0000

Please add, if possible, the Indonesian Gestapo Coup in 1965 in which President Soekarno was toppled. What about Mao's Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949?

Both significantly altered history in their own ways.

By: pratto

pratto — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:03:37 +0000

NAPOLEON!!! This is historically significant and you dont even have him on here? Pick up a text book.

By: Marbix

Marbix — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:42:11 +0000

K1w1taxi thank you for finally defining the issue with this list. Normally these lists are pretty good to great but this one lacked a rigid application of the title itself. A revolution is not a coup d'etat. Revolutions are mass uprisings or a change in political thought. Like the American Revolution. Destro also had it right.

This list needs serious editing and removal of nearly half of the entries.

Germany is moot since prior to the Reichstag fire you can consider it a German Republic and after that incident you pretty much have to identify it as a one party state of a German Nazi Republic. But again you can debate the point. I would make the *****ogy to the Evil Empire and the Galactic Republic from the Star Wars movies to provide a pop culture context.

Make sure you apply the criteria of your articles headline to have a serious piece of information. Otherwise you might be accused of propaganda and a bias you may or may not have intended. We all have our biases but if you are providing a top ten list apply the criteria of Coup and not that of a revolution.

By: Crazy95

Crazy95 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:06:55 +0000

Another concern is when you call support, if it is not a production system problem, it does not get critical attention. ,

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:53:18 +0000

No French Revolution? No American Revolution?

By: IRISHREBEL1922

IRISHREBEL1922 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:01:50 +0000

I dont understand u, wasnt the boyne in present day REPUBLIC OF IRELAND which means BILLYS infulence has been absolved LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!!!

By: appie

appie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:48:27 +0000

what about presidents/leaders with highest coup attempts?

By: BEERmann

BEERmann — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:49:42 +0000

Where is Polish Revolution in 1989?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:51:37 +0000

To #12 Alex: Why does America need a Revolution??? Things may not be perfect here but they will get better–and we will have universal health care in the next four years. Who says our current economic structure is unstainable? Marxist idiots like yourself or ecofreaks with no conception of economics or the march or technology? What we need is at least a modicum of regulation, not a revolution. What we need are less eco-damaging energy sources and infrastructure–which we will get, and which will enable us to maintain our economy and our standard of living. With smart, non-Bushesque, diplomacy we can keep and even expand our influence and power. What we don’t need–and not just us but the entire world–are moronic defeatists like yourself whose intelligence is so limited that they can only conclude that if society isn’t perfect than obviously it must be destroyed and rebuilt in an even more half-assed way. America needs some changes made, but it sure as hell doesn’t need to become some crap nation where political disputes can only be solved with violent revolution.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:36:03 +0000

Sorry Razor11000, but though the October Revolution was important, the rise of democracy is even more so, for not only have there always been more democracies than commie dictatorships, but in the future, democracy will be the way the entire world trends into, not Communism, a bankrupt, failed philosophy that only a small minority of uneducated, over-reacting morons (like Red Star) actually think still can work. Oh, and let’s not forget how all commie countries actually go through the motions of trying to appear to be democratic, having elections (albeit rigged ones with only 1 choice), and sometimes including “democratic” in the formal names of commie countries. Yes, democracy has been, and will be, much more influential and positive for humanity than the excrement of communism ever was, an ideology that has left nearly 100 million corpses in its wake (yeah, but I guess the world and the US still needs that sort of retarded revolution, huh Red Star?). Capitalism may need a little regulation, but to overthrow what the world has now over a bump (a much smaller bump than our ancestors got over in the Great Depression) for the sake of the tried and failed mass-murdering stupidity of communism is absolutely IDIOTIC!!!