Counter-revolution Quotes
Vladimir Lenin. The Russian solution to the problem was to form the Cheka—secret police. See {613732}.
Vladimir Lenin
Tens of thousands of Iranians were.
The Kuomintang was the anti-Communist political party controlled by Chaing Kai Chek and the major opponent of the Communists. It took more than another decade but Mau and the Communists with the vast support of the majority of the masses, did indeed take over all of China. At the time few thought that they would ever do it.
Vladimir Lenin. The Bolshivik Communists were opposed to a strong directly elected parliament. The Mensheviks and almost all others wanted the democratic notion of a parliament. Lenin, a practical politician, counseled to go against their theory and go with what was popular. They did.
The “constraints” include an unwillingness to use atomic, chemical and biological warfare; no torture; execution or assassination of all insurgents possible; killing and intimidation of civilians; due process.
The Roman Catholic Defender Organization had about 300 thousand volunteers, and Belfast was the central location of the Defender leaders.
This is an example of what made the Cold War so difficult. The Italian Communists had great misgivings about the Russian version of Communism that tended to abuse human rights and try and control other countries. However, when the Russian Communists were under world attacks by the West, as with their incursion into Hungary, he urged that all the Communists stick together and defend the Russians even for policies that they thought wrong. On the West side, the same thing occurred. The United States tolerated and supported a number of terribly oppressive dictatorships that were virulently anti-Communist. Polarization was the international norm.
