SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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    Every single fucking time.

    Communists: We’re giving people basic rights and food and shelter, but we might make some mistakes along the way and we try to acknowledge them where we can.

    Anti-Communists: Communists are evil. proceeds to do every fucking horrific thing they can possibly think of and get away with, and blame it on anyone else if it comes to light at all

    Communists: Are you fucking kidding me? This is our opposition?

    Anti-Communists: Stop being so evil, communists!

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    those were the people US were supporting as “democracy defenders” against the “communist threat” of the north

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      It’s fascinating watching the west talking about Korea during the cold war. It was rarely, if ever mentioned, and was treated as pretty bad, at best an “unfortunate necessity” but usually just ignored as much as possible. It wasn’t until the 90s when South Korea’s image was rehabilitated and the DPRK was demonised.