To: Dayuhan who wrote (13351 ) 10/8/1998 10:48:00 PM From: JF Quinnelly Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Has any communist organization overthrown a democracy? There haven't been many democracies in history, but of course I can name some. After 1918 Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were all free republics, and Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were independent countries. All of them had communist regimes forced upon them following the Second World War, as did Germany which had been a democracy in the Weimar period. encouraging and supporting right wing dictators creates exactly the conditions that left wing regimes require to grow. The US right, with its slavish support of Somoza, did far more to bring the Sandinistas to power than the Soviets. A Nicaraguan in Moscow . An association with Castro began in 1959, and Fonseca moved permanently to Havana. In 1960 Fonseca, Borge, Silvio Mayorga, and Humberto Ortega founded the FSLN, naming it for Sandino. Ortega wrote that Marxist-Leninist theory was the basis of their organization. The connections and training of the FSLN by the Soviets and Cubans was extensively written up by people who left the FSLN. The lack of freedom in Sandanista Nicaragua was a natural product of Marxist-Leninist rule, just as it still is today in Cuba. When Castro dies, I'll look forward to all the glowing tributes that will paid to him. I wonder what end of the political spectrum the tributes will come from....
