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Communists
1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists

1984 Leamon Hunt, U.S. director-General in Sinai, killed by communists

1982 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections

1982 Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists

1981 French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists

1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election

1977 Communists/socialists win French municipal elections

1975 Communists take over Laos

1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia

1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists

1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections

1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party

1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin

1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

1950 Massive arrests of communists in France

1950 President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government

1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists

1950 Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking

1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff

1949 Mass arrests of communists in India

1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

1947 King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne

1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists

1947 Communists grab power in Hungary

1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists

1946 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election

1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists

1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau

1940 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands

1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists

1936 Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular

1933 Japan begins persecution of communists

1933 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China

1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin

1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists

1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists

1927 Bloody battles between communists and nazis in Berlin

1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

1924 German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose)

1924 British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists

1924 German Republic election fascists and communists win

1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy



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