I’ve seen people supporting Saddam and I guess it could have been just a mistake or something, but it seems like such a shitty decision to make, and he also received support from the US, so I don’t really know what to believe there.

  • Nocheztli ☭
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    10 months ago

    There’s also some people that think that just because he was a part of the Ba’ath party, he was a socialist. But if I remeber correctly, once in power he purged the actual socialists and the left wing of the party in Iraq.

    • ComradeSalad
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      10 months ago

      It wasn’t even once he was in power, it was 6 DAYS after becoming president. He accused the vast majority of the Ba’ath leaders and many members of being Syrian spies, and executed or imprisoned them based off of those charges. The Ba’ath party from that point forward became essentially an empty controlled opposition party.

      This extremely strained Iraqi-Syrian relations, and essentially marked the death of socialism in Iraq.