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unusual facts about Communists



1951 in the People's Republic of China

The resulting Chinese defeat at Seoul and Soyang River brought the Communists side to the armistice negotiation.

1967 war

Cambodian Civil War (1967–1975), a conflict between the communists (Khmer Rouge) and the governorment forces of Cambodia

1978 Georgian demonstrations

In May 1978, several thousands of Abkhaz nationalists assembled in the village of Lykhny to support 130 Abkhaz Communists, who had signed the letter to Moscow, demanding that the Abkhaz ASSR be allowed to be transferred from Georgia to the Russian SFSR.

374th Airlift Wing

In the spring of 1972, after most American ground forces had been withdrawn, the North Vietnamese Communists launched a major offensive as they invaded South Vietnam during Easter.

Alahan Panjang

Alahan Panjang, along with Padang, Pariaman, Silungkang, Sawah Lunto, Sijinjung and Suliki, has been cited as an area which had particularly active communists in local politics.

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley

His action triggered bloody reprisals by communists and anarchists in Munich in which a number of people were killed, including Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis.

Archbishop Stepinac High School

It was founded in 1948 and named for Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who was archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia) at the time and unfairly convicted by communists as Nazi collaborator.

Battle for trade

Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950, Cornell University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8014-3287-1

Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'an

Otherwise, the communists would attack westward into the region of Suining (雎宁) and Xiuqian (宿迁), so that the communist standing in Southern Shandong, Shuyang (沭阳), Huaiyin and Huai'an would remain favorable, and Su Yu still should direct his force to take Hai’an (海安).

Furthermore, all of the communist bases in central and northern Jiangsu were lost as a consequence because the natural barriers that would help to defend these communist bases such as Lake Hongze, Lake Gaoyou (Gao You Hu, 高邮湖), and Grand Canal of China were in nationalist hands when HuaiyinHuai'an region was lost by the communists.

Bavarian Soviet Republic

Soon after, on 3 May 1919, remaining loyal elements of the German army (called the "White Guards of Capitalism" by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30,000 men, entered Munich and defeated the communists after bitter street fighting in which over 1,000 supporters of the government were killed.

Being Communists

Being Communists (Essere Comunisti) is a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy, formed basically of former followers of Armando Cossutta, who left the party in 1998 to form the Party of Italian Communists.

Bukit Kepong Incident

On 21 August 2011, Mohamad Sabu, Deputy President of PAS, made a controversial statement saying that Mat Indera, the leader of the communists during the Bukit Kepong Incident, was a national hero for fighting against British rule.

By Royal Command

As he was more sympathetic towards Hitler, and the fact that Dandy and Roan would have claimed to be working for the Communists, the United Kingdom would have formed an alliance with Germany, isolating the French and giving Germany an ally in the ensuing war against Communist Russia.

Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern China

Communists mobilized 63 divisions totaling over 41,000 troops and an additional 60,000 militia in the Central and Southern China Military Region to fight the local bandits in the regions including western Henan, western Hubei, southern Jiangxi, northeastern Jiangxi, western Hunan, southern Hunan, western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, Pearl River Delta, western Guangxi, southeastern Guangxi and the border region between Hubei, Anhui and Henan.

Chen Duxiu

In 1927, he and other high-ranking Communists, including Mao Zedong and Borodin, collaborated closely with Wang Jingwei's Nationalist government in Wuhan, convincing Wang's regime to adopt various proto-Communist policies.

Chicken Kiev speech

As his motorcade passed through Kiev, it was greeted by large numbers of people waving Ukrainian and American flags but also protesters bearing slogans such as "Mr. Bush: billions for the USSR is slavery for Ukraine" and "The White House deals with Communists but snubs Rukh," the principal pro-independence party in Ukraine.

Cyrillus Jarre

He opposed the formation of state-sanctioned Christian churches in China (Three-Self Patriotic Movement) and supported the Legion of Mary, an association of Catholic laity that was viewed as reactionary organization by the communists.

Economics of fascism

During the Spanish Republic, workers' groups had aligned with the communists, anarchists or other republican forces.

Enrico Berlinguer

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

Federação Brasileira de Escolas de Samba

Because the União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil, then called UGES, was linked with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), more conservative sectors of Carioca politics spurred the creation of FBES in 1947 with the goal of weakening the communists.

Fuhlsbüttel

Most of the inmates were Communists, Social Democrats and other political opponents of Nazism, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Romani, homosexual men and others whom the regime wanted to lock up.

Harry F. Ward

Ward is best remembered as the first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), leading the group from its creation in 1920 until his resignation in protest of the organization's decision to bar Communists in 1940.

Horák

Milada Horáková (1901-1950), Czech politician executed by communists

Indian Ink

Flora is a thoroughly modern girl who has modeled for Modigliani, hobnobbed with communists, and been accused of obscenity for the racy book A Nymph and Her Muse.

Irene Levine Paull

Under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Communists and those suspected of being Communists faced social and political persecution.

Jerry Zalph

He is also remembered for being one of many journalists implicated as Communists during the 1950s.

Juan Negrín

Negrín relied on the Communists to curtail the Anarchist wing of the Spanish Left, and was forced to rely on the Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, for weapons and armament, because of the arms embargo imposed by the Non-Intervention Committee.

Kainikkara Padmanabha Pillai

His 1959 book The red interlude in Kerala published for the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee gave a thoughtful discussion of how the communists came to power in Kerala, often quoted in analyses of the politics of that period.

Lesser of two evils principle

In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against Abdul-Karim Qassem who had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and then the Central Intelligence Agency both covertly and overtly helped the new Ba'ath Party government of Abdul Salam Arif in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

Lucille May Grace

Long declared that Boggs "ain't no communist or ain't one anymore and won't be influenced nearly as much by them communists as by his brother, who is a Catholic priest, and by old Archbishop Joseph Rummel in New Orleans who supported school desegregation."

My Brother Is an Only Child

Duce!', and their actions constantly tending to violence, the communists are hardly less so: Schiller's words in the final movement of Beethoven's choral symphony are replaced by a hymn in praise of Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin; a meeting of activists consists of a room full of bearded men all shouting at once and only agreeing when the time comes to shout a slogan.

Operation Coldstore

The pro-communists, led by Lim Chin Siong strongly opposed this merger and were challenging the government of Singapore headed by Lee Kuan Yew of the People's Action Party (PAP) in their endeavour to establish a socialist state.

Organization of Saudi Communists

The OSC was formed in Beirut by Communists involved in the Arab National Liberation Movement; a coalition of Saudi opposition groups, including Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Philip Bounds

His book on George Orwell advances the controversial argument that Orwell's literary and cultural criticism was deeply influenced by the work of British communists.

Poul Henningsen

After the war he dissociated himself from the communists who were criticizing him for flabbing humanitarianism in his attitude to the settlement with the Nazis and for his growing scepticism about the Soviet Union and in many ways he was isolated.

Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade

We are anarchists, communists, anti-racists, animal liberationists, earth liberationists, luddites, feminists, queer liberationists, and many more things across various other fronts.

Robert Laxer

Following the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the accusations by Nikita Khrushchev of crimes by Joseph Stalin, and the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, Laxer joined many other disillusioned Communists in resigning from the party.

Rrahman Morina

Morina had a career as an agent of the Ministry of Interior of Yugoslavia, and later on as a party official in the League of Communists of Kosovo.

Rummagers League

The organization was founded in Terre Haute, Indiana in November 1919 as the Industrial Communists.

Songs for John Doe

American Communists and "fellow travelers", including the Almanacs, followed the anti-interventionist stance dictated by the Soviet Union through the Comintern, which accounts for the appearance of anti-war songs on the album.

Štěpán Trochta

During the war Bishop Trochta was a leader of resistance against the Nazis and a known friend to Christians, Jews and Communists during years as a prisoner in Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps.

The Industrial Pioneer

The first, pro-Communist editor of the Industrial Pioneer published articles by Communists like Solomon Lozovsky and Karl Radek, but was not simply preaching Bolshevism.

Tinko Simov

He came into contact with Vasil Popov, with whom he created an anti-government guerilla group of anarchists and communists.

Union for French Democracy

During the 1978 legislative electoral campaign, in his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing noted that the political leanings of the French people were divided among four groups: the Communists (PCF), the Socialists (PS), the Neo-Gaullists (RPR) and his own followers.

University Square

University Square, Bucharest, the site of 1990 protests demanding the exclusion of ex-Communists from Romanian politics

Willard Thorp

He came under great strain and eventually resigned during the McCarthy 'witch-hunt' investigations into alleged Communists 1950–1954.

Yekta Uzunoglu

Yekta alleges that the police charges against him were part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Turkish government under Tansu Çiller and former communists including foreign minister Jaromin Johanes who now lives in Turkey.

Zhang Junmai

Opposed to the Chinese communists, but also dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's (also spelled Jiang Jieshi) noncompliance with the constitution, Zhang Junmai went to the United States after 1949.


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