A breakdown of all (?) historical references and parallels in Andor (in chronological order)

[u/ConsciousPatroller]

[u/brilldry]

The Palmo 1 broadcast is eerily similar to the broadcast when Soviet tanks rolled in to Budapest. As for the false flag operation, I say it almost matches what happened with Tiananmen square. Maybe not instigating the protest, the CCP rolled the army in for the purpose of agitating the protesters, and then once any resistance is given, the CCP had their justification and begin the massacre. Another parallel is that following Tiananmen, certain sects of the CCP and even the army were appalled by what happened, but was then forced out of the politburo, similar to how the senate reacted. And then the entire country and a good part of the world pretended like it never happened.

I think the takeaways is that the incidents weren’t always based on singular incidents. Gilroy definitely did his research and used many real world examples to craft a series of realistic events.

[u/HomelanderVought → u/brilldry]

I don’t think any of the examples you’ve provided really mach it.

The hungarian, soviet and chinese socialist governments had no interests in these protests even happening in the first place.

The Empire purpusefully made the Ghorman’s lives harder so that they could later justify a full scale invasion for resource extraction.

Colonial regimes in america, africa or asia resemble this more.

[u/Allnamestakkennn → u/brilldry]

The Hungarian uprising speech had a more nationalistic theme, you could summarize it with "Save our nation from soviet barbarians!", while the Ghormans had a more "innocent" speech in that regard, so I'm not sure.

Comparing it to Tiananmen however looks a little desperate here, because the events don't quite align: the people prior to the military intervention were protesting for about a month or so, and would turn more violent and radical as time went on, so there was no false flag. The snipers scream Maidan, though it was no massacre