re: #537 Dark_Falcon
In South America, they were supported by the Soviet Union, and in the three cases where they succeeded (even if only for a decade or so) they immediately became hubs for Soviet efforts to destabilize other regimes and/or were used to support Soviet military assets used to threaten the United States. Such organizations were thus my nation’s enemies.
It’s sad to me that the words “socialism” and “communism” are going the way of “fascism” in becoming simply swear words. The concepts behind them are lost in the minds of many in our society.