Although no historical process can be repeated, the current wave of struggles can be compared with the ‘Springtime of the Peoples’ – the revolutionary wave that began in France in February 1848 and that quickly spread to Prussia and many other parts of Germany, the Austrian Empire and Hungary, which was under the latter’s control, Poland, Italy, and other peoples of central Europe, against the background of the economic crisis that had erupted in 1846.
Anche se nessun processo storico si ripete, l’attuale ondata può essere confrontato con la cosiddetta "Primavera dei Popoli".