Oh, the replies.
Yet again, anonymous tankie accounts incapable of acknowledging that communist regimes were highly repressive and widely reviled by their own people.
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Anna Grzymala-Busse
Communist regimes in the 1940/50s battled what they saw as “alien anti-communist agitators,” traitors trained and paid up by the West.
Autocratic regimes can never quite believe their opposition is sincere, popular, and intense
Anna Grzymala-Busse
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."
