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> propping up Marxist militias in Latin America Could you expand on that a bit? I'm genuinely curious.
by cassianoleal 5y ago
> propping up Marxist militias in Latin America
Could you expand on that a bit? I'm genuinely curious.
- oblio 5y agoFor people who are not aware, a huge chunk of left wing guerillas across the world, from ~1924 until 1991, were funded and supported by the USSR. Greece, Germany, Peru, Columbia, Angola, you name it, Soviet funded. Some others were funded by China, but those were a minority.
- cassianoleal 5y agoAre the militias who were fighting against US- and CIA-backed dictatorships across Latin America part of this classification?
- oblio 5y agoYes, as were the militias that were fighting against US- and CIA-backed democracies. Let's not be biased or naive and assume that the authoritarian USSR was all of a sudden only sponsoring socialist democracies around the world...
- Paradigma11 5y agoAnd dont forget all the shit that cuba pulled. Oh boy they were busy.
- frrlpp 5y agoPeru? Come on. Sendero luminoso was Maoist.