| May 31, 2009 | -
General Motors filed for bankruptcy, and President Obama unveiled his plan to save the former industrial giant by nationalizing it, closing plants, and firing workers.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 16, 2007 | - Nearly 300 inmates, most of them communists, escaped from a prison in India.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 2, 2007 | - A Polish man who had been comatose since Communist rule awoke.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 4, 2007 | - Lapsed Albanian
Communists were rediscovering God.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| March 21, 2007 | - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that a new “anti-greenhouse religion” had replaced Communism as the paramount threat to global freedom. “This ideology preaches earth and nature, and under the slogans of their protection--similarly to the old Marxists--wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world.”
| Source:
Reuters via the San Diego Union Tribune
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Maoist rebels were taking over coffee plantations near Ooty, India.
| Source:
andhracafe.com
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| November 29, 2006 | - The Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism hosted a seminar on the deceased North Korean dictator's seminal academic tome, “The Workers' Party of Korea Is the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.”
| Source:
North Korea News Service
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| July 8, 2005 | -
Air Supply played the Karl Marx theater in Cuba.
| Source:
ABC13.com
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| February 27, 2005 | -
Maoists killed fifteen in Nepal.
| Source:
Times of India
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| February 25, 2005 | -
Nepalese soldiers killed dozens of Maoists in Nepal.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 14, 2005 | -
Iraq's
election results were announced. Several parties gained seats in the newly created Iraqi parliament, including the United Iraqi Alliance, the Kurdistan Alliance, the Iraqi List, “Iraqis,” the Turkmen Iraqi Front, National Independent Elites and Cadres Party, the Communist Party, the Islamic Kurdish Society, the Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq, the National Democratic Alliance, National Rafidain List, and the Reconciliation and Liberation Entity.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 14, 2004 | - "There will be a purge on God's orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows," said the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the cult leader and owner of the Washington Times, in a recent speech. "Gays will be eliminated, the three Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the Communist purge but at God's orders."
| Source: New York Press
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| May 27, 2003 | - China cracked down on spitting, and the Communist Party Central Committee's Spiritual Civilization Office issued a "Directive on Launching Activities to Transform Vile Habits."
| Source: New York Times
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| May 11, 2003 | - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy complained in an interview that he hadn't been to his house in Bermuda in three years, and said that he was the only man who could save Italy from Communism. "How much longer," he asked, "do I have to keep living this life of sacrifices?"
| Source: New York Times
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| March 25, 2003 | -
Czech officials published a list of 75,000 former agents of the Communist secret police.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
Jiang Zemin resigned as head of the Communist Party of China and was replaced by Hu Jintao, who is best known for imposing martial law in Tibet in 1989.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
Communists in Russia marched to protest the betrayal of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Granma,
Cuba's
Communist newspaper, accused the United States of waging “biological war” against Cuba, resulting in the loss of $2 million of their honey output.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Communists in the Italian
senate protested the upcoming Group of 8 summit, which will be held in Genoa next month, by holding up little signs that read, “Let's throw the G-8 into the sea.” Afghanistan's Taliban agreed to let the World Food Program employ local women to survey food needs there even though this would seem to violate God's
Law.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Romanians were concerned that a young anti-Semite might defeat an old Communist in a runoff election for president.
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| November 21, 2000 | - A small airplane dropped leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City that said: “We bow our heads, Communists sit on our necks. We stand up, Communists fall.” It was signed by the “Global Alliance for the Total Uprising Against Communists.”
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| September 26, 2000 | -
South Africa's
Communist Party affirmed that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus; President Thabo Mbeki believes otherwise, and his ministry of health recently issued a leaflet claiming that AIDS was the result of a conspiracy between the Illuminati and space aliens.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Elián González appeared once again on the front page of newspapers; it was his first day of school; he recited a pledge that included the line: “Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che!” One wire service noted that Elián was “arguably Cuba's most famous boy.”
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| August 15, 2000 | - Some 2,000 local Chinese
Communist Party Secretaries were recalled for further indoctrination and training.
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