11Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia wanted to build a state-of-the-art subway network with better trains, but the Soviet Union forced them to use their old, inefficient train designs for the benefit of the Soviet Economy.
12Mengistu
Mengistu, the brutal communist dictator of Ethiopia, who had thousands of people executed and may have personally murdered Emperor Haile Selassie, is alive and well under asylum in Zimbabwe.
13Indonesian Communist Party
The Indonesian Communist Party was once the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world and was effectively dissolved through a US-supported mass killing of 500,000 of its members.
14Zimbabwe
Bob Marley wrote a song called "Zimbabwe" in support of the Marxist-Leninist and Maoist guerillas fighting against the Rhodesian government. After Robert Mugabe became the leader of the new country of Zimbabwe, Marley was invited to perform at the country's independence celebrations.
15Mémoires
The French Marxist philosopher Guy Debord's first book 'Mémoires' was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would damage other books placed next to it.
16Communist Party USA
Out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants.
17Los Frikis
In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “Los Frikis,” were so fed up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.
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18Communist Czechoslovakia
When the Monopoly game was introduced to communist Czechoslovakia, private businesses were illegal and mortgages didn’t exist, so they turned it into a horse racing variant.
19Hundred Flowers Campaign
During the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” of 1956, China allowed and encouraged people to speak freely and openly express their opinions about the communist regime. After a year, the campaign was withdrawn and the Chinese government imprisoned those who spoke critically about them.
20Bodo League Massacre
During the Bodo League Massacre of 1950, more than 100,000 suspected communists were killed by the South Korean government. US, Australian, and British officials witnessed and photographed the political genocide.
