WI: Cultural Revolution Spreads

RousseauX

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Warsaw Pact European nations and while they deny everything publically and privately when Moscow asks why the youth are attacking their officials, the government are again supporting the Red Guards in the background like Mao to help distance themselves from the Soviet Sphere.

And between 6-12 month later the tanks are in country ala Prague 1968 and the government officials responsible are hauled back to Moscow and removed if they are lucky and shot if they aren't.

Brezhnev era USSR does not fuck around with "deviations" from the true path of Socialism in eastern Euope.
 

RousseauX

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Well its one thing to have tanks roll in to crush liberals and pacifist lefties, but another thing entirely to have tanks fight against a radicalized, grassroots violent youth group with numbers on their side.

Besides what everyone else already said college students are terrible people to use if you are going for manpower because this is the 1960s and they are a really really small % of the population.
 
Today that's true but back in the 60s Maoism was pretty popular in the west.

The Maoists-turned-Hoxhaites that I met in the 80s, who I think were holdovers from the 60s, were extremely vocal in their praise for the man they always referred to as "J.V. Stalin". So yeah, some of them, at least, were quite fired up about idolizing parties that had been extremely powerful.
 
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