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Originally posted by Spanky
Was Allende a communist? I thought he was a socialist. He may have been a communist but he definitely did not run as a communist. Same with Chavez. I don't think Chavez ran as a communist. I know Putin did not run as a communist and he is not a communist. Wasn't Massadeq in Iran? And I don't think he ran as a communist either.
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I was joking about Putin, although I think that he's as much of a communist now as he was when he was in the KGB. And Mossadeq *was* in Iran (we put the Shah back after we took him out) -- that was a bad typo.
As for whether any of those people were actually Communists, who can tell? Party labels are meaningless -- I think that the official name of the "communist" party in Poland during the Cold War period was something like the "United Workers Party."
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Originally posted by Spanky
Actually I think we had a few left, and we were definitely in massive production. May have take a few months. Didn't we leave Garrisons in Western Europe.
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There was a massive demobilization after V-J Day. Not sure on the numbers, but we went from millions to a few thousand very quickly. But not quickly enough for the remaining troops, who rioted. In David Hackworth's book "About Face," he talks about the miserable morale and fighting condition of US troops in Europe between 1946 and 1950 or so (he joined the army as a 16 year old, and served in Trieste in that time period).
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Originally posted by Spanky
I agree with you on this. Sidd just asked me if we should have. I don't think it would have been politically reasible for the reaons you mention, but it would still have been the right move.
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Maybe.
