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> Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot. Have you got examples of this? In Russian history it always was better.
by dzhiurgis 5y ago
> Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot.
Have you got examples of this? In Russian history it always was better.
- llampx 5y agoPinochet, for one. US-backed coup d'etat overthrowing a democratically-elected government. For more you can read the Wikipedia article United States involvement in regime change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
- dzhiurgis 5y agoLets start with deaths of their own... Lenin - 200k executions, 5 million deaths due to famines Stalin - 800k executions, 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, plus some famine and some miscellaneous brings to around 5million, some estimates upwards 20 million. Everything after that sounds like a breeze. Now for the involvement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c... Do I even need to bother looking how much communism had done around world?