Learn about the origin of the term "spring" in politics

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The use of the term spring in politics dates back to the middle of the 19th century, due to the popular revolutions that broke out in Europe beginning in 1848, which is known as the "spring of peoples or the European revolutions." It began with the revolutionary revolution of the French revolution in February of the same year, A European state at this time, including Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and Ireland, promised one of the most revolutionary waves in the history of Europe.

These revolutions were characterized by a democratic nature and sought to create independent national states. It ended with a series of important reforms, including increased participation in government and democracy, freedom of the press, the end of absolute monarchy in Denmark, the introduction of parliamentary democracy in the Netherlands .

The same term was repeated in Europe during the 1950s and 1960s, where the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets in 1956 was known as the Spring of Budapest, and the 1968 Czechoslovak Revolution against the Soviets was called the Spring of Prague.

The Arab region was defined by the term "spring" in 2011 after the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt and Gaddafi in Libya, where the waves were called the Arab Spring, while a number of analysts believe that they failed in their goals and caused the emergence of terrorist waves suffered by the region so far. .

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