{"id":23304,"date":"2026-11-11T02:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23304"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:41:57","slug":"the-revolution-that-almost-destroyed-the-soviet-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23304","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Hungary tried to leave the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union crushed them violently, proving that the Warsaw Pact was not a deal between independent countries, but puppets with no choice but to remain in a Russian empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkA-CSPWZy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Hungary tried to leave the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union crushed them violently, proving that the Warsaw Pact was not a deal between independent countries, but puppets with no choice but to remain in a Russian empire. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DkA-CSPWZy8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,1189,660,924,728,770,969,315,1463,661],"class_list":["post-23304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-communism","tag-dictatorship","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-history","tag-hungary","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23305,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}