When I think of revolution, most images are about rough and hard fighting, demonstrations, people being hurt, killed, murdered and general chaos. There are very few exceptions, although images and headlines of the time just before the fall of The Wall that separated West and East Germany swell up.
Being a contemporary of the forceful division of the country of Germany, no one ever had the “faintest smell” of what was to come from mid-1989 on. It seemed impossible that the status quo would ever change. The unravelling of the Eastern Bloc.

The visibility of change began in summer 1989 with East German tourists traveling to the Eastern Bloc-permitted states of Czechoslovakia and Hungary for “vacation”, although, the tourists turned up rather quickly at the embassies of other nations in Budapest and Prague, creating in their embassy villas gardens improv campgrounds, and claiming political asylum.
While people noticed that the turmoil in these states wasn’t immediately squashed, regular peaceful demonstration swelled up in Leipzig (GDR). And the people of Leipzig kept walking and pressing forward. Every Monday, they kept walking, over and over.
[From Wikipedia: The Monday demonstrations (Montagsdemonstrationen in der DDR) were a series of peaceful political protests against the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The demonstrations began in Leipzig on 4 September 1989, starting the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the government, and German reunification.]

Since the early 2000, the Ukrainian population has been involved in its own revolution to become truly independent and free from Russia. The Orange Revolution in 2004 resulted in new elections after massive election fraud was confirmed by the highest court in Ukraine. However, it took many years to install a rightfully elected democratic president, and still to this day, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the brave Ukrainians keep fighting off brutal Russian landgrabs.

Revolution can have many faces and outcomes, but they all come from the people themselves, the groundswell. It might take many years, sometimes generations and way too many lives to levy the right of the people. We are not there, yet. The memory of worse times seems very short lived.