5/21/2023 0 Comments Book the jakarta method![]() ![]() It does not square with the “liberal order” mythology that our leaders tell themselves and us. ![]() We generally ignore this part of the Cold War because it is ugly and because our government bears considerable responsibility for what happened to these countries. That is true most of all in the United States, since it was our government that frequently encouraged and assisted local actors in their crimes against their own people. The atrocities committed against these people are often forgotten in the West, if they were ever known in the first place. Fanatical anticommunism claimed millions of victims during the Cold War. Those nations that had the misfortune of being deemed important in the struggle against communism tended to suffer the most. Americans generally prefer to remember the Cold War as a mostly peaceful triumph punctuated by a handful of debacles, but for many of the people living in non-aligned and newly independent countries after WWII their experience of the Cold War was one of horror and devastation. The so-called Long Peace after 1945 was covered in the blood of innocent people. ![]()
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