From Gandhi to Walesa

This exhibit – with 14 items loaned by Gandhi’s family estate, the „Charta 77“ typewriter from Czechoslovakia, the hectograph from the illegal East German periodical Umweltblätter– can be considered the first exhibit on international non-violent struggle.

Examples from various countries are used to show how justice prevailed without in turn committing injustice, from humour to non-violent mass demonstrations. These include the „Leipzig Monday demonstrations“ and the Alexanderplatz demonstration of 4 November (East Berlin), which occurred five days after the Wall fell, and Moscow’s „Three Days in August“. On display in the museum is the 50 metre long white, blue and red flag that Moscow’s residents marched behind as they brought the putsch of the Old Communists to its knees.