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Not about V for Vendetta, but my when my wife saw Animal Farm for the first time a couple of weeks ago she thought it was pretty accurate.

V can be interpreted any way you want depending on who you think the bad guys are. The Chinese government was established by revolutionaries after all.

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Orwell had direct experience of Soviet-directed communist repression in Spain as a member of Trotsky-influenced POUM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia

However all governments are established by a revolution of some form or another.

Tell that to Canada.

Um... What about Australia? Canada? Barbados?

At least a dozen former British colonies established their independence gradually and peacefully, with the willing cooperation of the UK. No fighting, animosity, or anything that could be remotely considered a "revolution".

(Now of course, not ALL former colonies separated peacefully: India, The United States, etc. But there are plenty of examples on both sides.)

And how about Iceland?

You're counting country numbers instead of population numbers. China, India, and the US are all high-pop places, each supported by a major river system.

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