They tried to stay out of the incipient contest betweenĬapitalism and communism, and steer clear of superpower interference. Union amid the postwar rubble of Western Europe, many of the countries thenĮmerging from colonization, along with those that had not been pulled into theįighting for reasons of geographic and political distance, worked hard to avoid Sense, about why countries that were poor a half-century ago remain so today.Īs tensions mounted between the U.S. His book is both a story of haunting Cold War echoes and, in a deeper Violent campaigns, according to Bevins, served political as well as economicĮnds. Long-standing domestic antagonisms as with grand ideological struggle. People in the name of anti-communism, their motives as bound up with Indonesia as models, repressive regimes around the world would kill millions of The book’s title refers to the sprawlingĬapital city of Indonesia, where “the largest and most important” program ofĪnti-Communist extermination took place. Of the armed forces in both countries that could be counted on to eliminate
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