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  • Leftyfox
    5·
    3 years ago

    A nice list! Though, it doesn’t include some of the ones done through the ned.

      • Leftyfox
        3·
        3 years ago

        The ned was used as a weapon in quite a few instances, though the specific ones that are probably more relevant here would be their work in Bulgaria, Albania, and Mongolia.

        In Bulgaria after the coup by reformists that ousted Zhivkov the new - now social democratic - BSP was still too spicy for the United States, and further had won the ‘first’ elections held in the country after the end of communism with enough support to continue to make policy. The United States began to threaten the government about a potential exclusion from certain economic institutions as well as helping the opposition to organize by flooding them with money and advisors - ultimately leading to a series of resignations and another election that the opposition finally won.

        In Albania, the leadership of the party - after witnessing the brutality of the reformist coup in Romania - decided to begin a program of rapid reform. Eventually they adopted a more western state-system and held elections that the communist party handily won - outpacing the various opposition groups and attaining a majority (I believe a super-majority even). The United States was extremely pissed about this and funded the opposition, doing the same things they had done in Bulgaria with bribing people to organize protests, putting economic pressure on the government, and ultimately leading to the collapse of the Socialist Republic of Albania and reorganization of PPSh into the PS.

        Source: https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/bulgaria-albania

        In Mongolia the intervention was a bit later. The US I guess noticed that the MPP was still wildly popular and once more used the ned to forcibly unite the opposition, flooded them with money, and offered them campaigning advice and services that ultimately resulted in the opposition coming to power.

        Source: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mongolia-elections-mccain-international-republican-institute/

        Forgive the sources, I’m sure I could find more if I sifted through bookmarks but they should at least articulate what was going on.