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We thought of them as holy warriors who were taking the good fight to the ungodly communists.
Around the height of the Nazi period, he started repeating the verse, "First they came for the communists, and I did nothing, did not speak out because I was not a communist.
When the Red Army occupied East Germany in 1945, it immediately expanded there, and soon it started to train the German Communists to build up their own secret police.
And we heard so many graphic stories, such as, a little young boy being brutally killed by North Korean spies just because he said, "I don't like communists."
Then he put his hand on my shoulder and he looked me in the eyes, and he said, "That's what the communists and the Jews want you to do to keep you docile."
Indeed, my wife's uncle was murdered by the communists during the communist grab for power.
The scene that really speaks loudly of the ignorance of these people is the meeting at the church when the priest is giving his speech against the "international money grubbers and communists".
True, this was the peak of the Cold War, but I'm sick of having Communists or the Nazis always being shown as the enemy.
"Pickup On South Street" is a high speed drama about a small time criminal who suddenly finds himself embroiled in the activities of a group of communists.
Widmark and Peters are attracted to each other, which changes Peters loyalties (that, and the fact that she learns she's working for communists; the Cold War stuff is really interesting).
Unsatisfied with others who have cooperating families who could make claims, they find Spiro (Carmelo Di Mazzarelli) a doddering, half senseless old man they are reassured to be told is an orphan and who has been imprisoned by the communists for fifty years, and sign him up as the Albanian figurehead "president" of the company.
The plan goes badly, however; Mrs. Pollifax is handcuffed to Darren McGavin, then kidnapped by Communists.
As a son who grew up in a family of communists, I found this movie very insightful: the twists and turns of what fervent idealists took to be worker's paradise through the 50s, 60s, 70s and then to the end of the dream in the late 80s/early 90s was very well portrayed, especially with Judy Davis' stalwart commitment, which was portrayed quite sympathetically; the dark side of her family relationships was also poignantly sketched, as were her son's struggles with history: both global and personal; all in all, a superb blend of the comic and the dramatic: a genre it's very easy to screw up and is rarely, if ever, handled as deftly as it was here.
Horror of what Nazis had done to Jews , Slavs , Gypsies , Communists and other undesirable minorities were sampled and brought to screen with dramatic acting , intense detailed production values.
The symbol of the boiled potato which at first barely fed two people, finally being shared by the communists is quite striking.
Of course, as you might expect, the US is another villain in the movie like the brutal El Salvadoran army, and the communists are of course just trying to help the people in a terrible situation.
This film was, obviously, made during the era when communists were considered to be the major threat to the security of the USA.
One has to remember that the guards were brain washed and indoctrinated by the communists at a very young age.
I hear the average conservative accuse the American Civil Liberties Union of being sympathizers with criminals, communists, etc.
It's a dangerous message, and not all that far off from the one that the Communists drilled into their victims (for "God and the FBI" substitute "the Party").
Not only are the forces of opposition — socialists, communists, and the extreme right — attacking the government on all fronts, but the ruling Gaullist majority is beginning to crack.
Communists knew this very well; it is why they even manipulated associations of bee-keepers.
Finally, the people of Hong Kong should not give up hope, as the Chinese communists hope they will.
The policies of central planning, dirigisme , and import substitution, which many newly independent countries adopted in the 1950's and 1960's, could be labeled as the ideas of communists, Fabian socialists, and nationalists, not trained economists.
America recognized the communists in Beijing as China’s legitimate government, while helping to sustain Taiwan in a limbo between sovereignty and the practical exercise of statehood.
In Europe, however, socialist and communist parties imposed electoral systems based on proportional representation precisely because they open the door to representatives of minorities (the communists and socialists themselves).
When Mao and the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, they promised "reunification of the Motherland," which included bringing Xinjiang (the Muslim desert regions of the West), Tibet, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan back under central government control.
Poland, Hungary, even Russia: in all three, infighting among reformers allowed the political heirs to the communists to reclaim power.
After WWII Germany and Japan were the defeated aggressors, the Soviet Union posed a major threat, and China was engulfed in a civil war that would bring Mao's Communists to power.
The Gaullists used to believe that the sharp division between the communists and the socialists would assure them a very long tenure at the helm of the French state.
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