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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 1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia 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 Senator 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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