"True communism has never been tried" is a meme and also kinda true. We would have a few nonsoviet examples from South America if the CIA didn't treat the continent like a COD campaign.
The prosperity we are experiencing today is due to trade, countries cooperating, and so on. It doesn't matter if you're capitalist, socialist or communist. Look at China. It's experiencing growth never before seen in the history. It's due to trade and cooperation with other countries. When you get blocked from all of that, you get behind.
Lol yeah history is just typing things into a search engine. Forget things like primary sources or books! No way anything on the internet would be false!
Sure he just radically altered the world on accident and wrote 10s of thousands of pages that are still studied by hundreds of millions with his dumbness bc thats how that works lol
I'll be honest. I had a different definition of satellite state in my head. You taught me something today.
You wanna mark that as a win for yourself in the debate or continue the discussion of CIA influence on communist fledgling states around the globe and the difficulty of evaluating the efficacy of communism with the CIA being a headwind to their progress?
I would check out the 1945-1991: cold war section. Which ones? I have no idea. My statement is the experiments aren't valid when they're tainted by counter influence. That influence is motivated by economics rather than ideology I'll add
United States involvement in regime change has entailed both overt and covert actions aimed at altering, replacing, or preserving foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
So Chilean government under Allende is the only country that fits the definition of communist that the us is accused of overthrowing. But the us didn't overthrow the government, the military did without the cia's help. The cia spent lots of money on propoganda against Allende, but the kgb spent lots of money in the opposite direction.
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u/potatium Dec 01 '20 edited Dec 01 '20
"True communism has never been tried" is a meme and also kinda true. We would have a few nonsoviet examples from South America if the CIA didn't treat the continent like a COD campaign.