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Iranian revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution, a familiar journey from liberation to repression.Documentary by Adam Curtis.
How can a revolution have come to this? In The Road to Terror, Iranian revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1789. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past. Just like 200 years ago in , the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.
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