N. Korea Threatens to Attack S. Korea over Leaflets

[Jimbeaux]

Blue Meanie said:

Jimbeaux said:

Blue Meanie said:

tinman0 said:

Blue Meanie said:

The soviets were actually invited by the authority at the time to help battle the warlords. The warlords took over, and ended up fighting the Russians.

And I'm sure the idea of spreading Communism never crossed their minds.

Bit like rolling tanks into Prague to help flatten the cobble stones.

Edited by tinman0 on Tuesday 19th October 14:39

The authority in Afghanistan was already communist.

So, the authority put itself in charge, as Communist are rarely elected except (ironically) in Democratic nations.

You mean like the Shah in Iran? I wasn't making that point, however the vast number of people who think the Russians invaded Afghanistan is absurd. I'm not saying it is right, but the fact remains that they did not invade, and were invited by the authority at the time. Like it or loath it, that's how it was. Another point of interest was that the Russians never had anything to do with the insertion of the government at the time.

Edited by Blue Meanie on Tuesday 19th October 15:37

And all of that mattered how in the big scheme of things?

[Blue Meanie]

Jimbeaux said:

Blue Meanie said:

You mean like the Shah in Iran? I wasn't making that point, however the vast number of people who think the Russians invaded Afghanistan is absurd. I'm not saying it is right, but the fact remains that they did not invade, and were invited by the authority at the time. Like it or loath it, that's how it was. Another point of interest was that the Russians never had anything to do with the insertion of the government at the time.

And all of that mattered how in the big scheme of things?

I never said any of it matters. I was responding to the points being talked about at the time. The spread of communism, which I think you mentioned. Now whether that was part of the whole paranoid 'domino effect', I don't know.

[tinman0]

AJI said:

If you think this to be false then maybe you too should get those books opened.

I spent a fair bit of time reading up on the modern history in Indochina when I was in Thailand several years ago. I was there for a few months and it seemed like the right thing to do. Very interesting, and you certainly get an idea of how nations, especially the US, we're moving to protect other countries from Communism moving past it's current borders. Thailand was a huge benefactor of the policy of containment.

Moving on from what the west were doing to keep Communism behind its own borders, you also get to see the writings of the Thai king for instance who was often fated by the Chinese. When they gave him tours of China showing off Communism, it is well written that he merely saw an oppressed people who were poorer than his own starving to death, than this great political ideal called Communism.