Communist: Facts

the 1959 NBC series Five Fingers features David Hedison as an American counterintelligence officer in the Cold War who poses as a theatrical agent to investigate communist activities in Europe?
the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr prison?
the Communist-led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church's backing of the rival United Goans Party?
only two of the seven non-Soviet ruling Communist political parties in the Eastern Bloc used the word "Communist" in their names when they were first established?
neither the far right Lizard Union nor the communist Armia Ludowa, both parts of the Polish resistance in World War II, recognized the Polish Underground State?
in the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of capitalist enemies?
in the 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party accused the dissident communist group Rayat ash-Shaghilah of being "royalists", "deviationists", and police agents?
in the Polish legislative election, 1947, the communist-controlled Polish government, advised by specialists from Soviet Ministry for State Security, ensured its victory by vote rigging?
the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain?
the Romanian riots of 1989 led to the only bloody overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe?
the Workers Committee for National Liberation, a communist labour group, was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading the communist newspaper Rahbar, and could be fired if they did?
the Poznań 1956 protests (memorial pictured) were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
the 1994 Nepalese legislative election saw the first democratically elected communist government in Asia come to power?
the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists?
the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution?
in 1946 the University of Texas at Austin regent Orville Bullington worked to dismiss the president Homer Rainey on grounds of communists and homosexuals operating within the university?
in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher, who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army, founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment?
British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union, but remained on the far left?
Dương Quỳnh Hoa, who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War, was a communist spy?
Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch, after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
Indian communist politician K.P. Prabhakaran was in the forefront of a trade union of toddy tappers in Kerala for 55 years?
Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna, leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party, was killed in the 1965 massacres?
Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States?
Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early 1950s?
during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
Sir Ronald Holmes, the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, made no compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city?
Red Corridor is a term used to describe an impoverished region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite communist militant activity?
Moissaye Olgin (pictured), a member of the communist Workers Party, translated several books including Jack London's Call of the Wild and Friedrich Engels’ The Peasant War in Germany into Yiddish?
Pham Ngoc Thao, one of the key figures in South Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet Program, was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent?

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