@krisidious said:
what country has ever gone from totalitarian control to freedom without violence?
Spain maybe ?
In 1975,Franco,who held a totalitarian control in our country, died. And we succesfully passed to freedom without violence.
Mind you,it was necesary he died to achieve it and that we had have a civil-war in 1936 that helped to restrain the violence against ourselves again.
But quoting in an strict sense your question,
we did it.