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8. It wasn't about religion-- he was big into having churches destroyed. As a Communist country ...
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:38 PM
May 2024

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As a Communist country, it was straight-up about power — altho the longer he held total power, the more “kinglike” he became, using a custom made scepter, changing the names of buildings that had been called The People’s This and the People’s That. The forced-birth (or “natalist” ) policies were because he believed a much bigger population would make the country more powerful. Instead it made the population utterly miserable, poor, and unstable.

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