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Documenting the history and (often underreported) misdeeds of Marxists, Leninists, Socialists, Communists, Ba'athists, and other collectivists past and present.
On July 23rd, 1988, after his military killed hundreds (some estimates believe it was thousands) of protestors during the 8888 uprisings, Ne Win, the leader of Burma and the Burma Socialist Programme Party, resigned.
On July 23rd, 1968, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al flight 426 and diverted it to Algeria. The passengers and crew were held for 40 days before being released for 16 convicted Palestinian terrorists.
On July 23rd, 1983, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA ambushed Ramiro Salazar Suero, the owner of the Salazar automobile company in Vitoria, Spain. He was show in the back and killed as he was about to open his business.
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On July 23rd, 1988, after his military killed hundreds (some estimates believe it was thousands) of protestors during the 8888 uprisings, Ne Win, the leader of Burma and the Burma Socialist Programme Party, resigned.
On July 23rd, 1968, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al flight 426 and diverted it to Algeria. The passengers and crew were held for 40 days before being released for 16 convicted Palestinian terrorists.
On July 23rd, 1983, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA ambushed Ramiro Salazar Suero, the owner of the Salazar automobile company in Vitoria, Spain. He was show in the back and killed as he was about to open his business.
On July 23rd, 1988, after his military killed hundreds (some estimates believe it was thousands) of protestors during the 8888 uprisings, Ne Win, the leader of Burma and the Burma Socialist Programme Party, resigned.
On July 23rd, 1968, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked El Al flight 426 and diverted it to Algeria. The passengers and crew were held for 40 days before being released for 16 convicted Palestinian terrorists.
On July 23rd, 1983, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA ambushed Ramiro Salazar Suero, the owner of the Salazar automobile company in Vitoria, Spain. He was show in the back and killed as he was about to open his business.
On July 23rd, 1988, after his military killed hundreds (some estimates believe it was thousands) of protestors during the 8888 uprisings, Ne Win, the leader of Burma and the Burma Socialist Programme Party, resigned.
On July 22nd, 2012, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas died in a car crash under suspicious circumstances. Witnesses reported a government vehicle ran him off of the road and in 2023, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights declared the regime responsible for his murder.
On July 22nd, 2003, the revolutionary socialist Basque separatist group ETA detonated two bombs in Spain. One went off in the Residencia Bahia Hotel in Alicante and the other in the Nadal hotel in Benidorm. Over a dozen people were injured.
On July 22nd, 2017, a day after the opposition led Venezuelan legislature appointed new justices, one of them, Angel Zerpa, was arrested. Other justices were threatened with arrest and asset seizure by Maduro and forbidden from leaving the country.
On July 22nd, 1979, Saddam Hussein convened a meeting of the socialist Ba'athist party leaders and claimed to have found a "fifth column" within the party. It was a pretext to purge political enemies. 68 were arrested, of whom 22 were executed.
On July 22nd, 1980, the socialist Basque separatist group ETA set off bombs at a road junction near Logrono, Spain as three buses carrying Civil Guards passed. 33 were injured and one, Lieutenant Francisco López Bescos, died shortly after being admitted to hospital.
On July 22nd, 1983, the Polish government ended the martial law it had imposed a year and half earlier. They imposed it to suppress opposition, such as Solidarity. Dissidents had been subjected to beatings and brutality, and 91 had been killed.
On July 22nd, 2012, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas died in a car crash under suspicious circumstances. Witnesses reported a government vehicle ran him off of the road and in 2023, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights declared the regime responsible for his murder.
On July 22nd, 2003, the revolutionary socialist Basque separatist group ETA detonated two bombs in Spain. One went off in the Residencia Bahia Hotel in Alicante and the other in the Nadal hotel in Benidorm. Over a dozen people were injured.
On July 22nd, 2017, a day after the opposition led Venezuelan legislature appointed new justices, one of them, Angel Zerpa, was arrested. Other justices were threatened with arrest and asset seizure by Maduro and forbidden from leaving the country.
