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Communism, A People's Government

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

COMMUNISM

A PEOPLES GOVERNMENT
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What is communism?
Communism Is a Political, social and economic government which makes it a
Collective society with land, property and economics controlled by the people.
The Ultimate goal of communism is to create a society where everyone is equal in economy classes.
Before the Russian revolution in 1917 there were two social classes, Proletariat (poor) and bourgeoisie (rich).
Communism is meant to be a Theory concerned with social justice.

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Communist government
A totalitarian government, which is what communism is, controls most everything about a persons life
The Government controls wages in a communist government so there is no economic classes.
There is No real estate, instead land owned by government.

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Founding Communist leaders
North Korea
Kim-il-sung
In office 1948-1994
Came into office after the Korean War.

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Mao Zedong leader of communist China from 1945-1976
He Was in office for the infamous tiananmen square tank man incident.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU video of the Tiananmen Square tank man.

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Ho Chi Minh
leader of communist Vietnam from 1951-1969
Leader during part of the Vietnamese war, died in 1969. He was Born in French indochina.

Kaysone Phomvihane
leader of communist Laos from 1955-1991
Not much is known about him.

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Vladimir Lenin
Leader of communist Russia from 1917-1924
Started the Russian revolution in 1917. He is Known as "The father of communism."

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Fidel Castro
leader of communist Cuba from 1976-2008
Lead Cuba during the trade embargo with the u.s. Cuba is no longer communist.

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Brief history
Russia was the first communist controlled government, beginning in 1917 after the Russian revolution. There was a Rapid spread of communism after the Second World War.
Russia Joined three other territories to form U.S.S.R in 1922, 12 new territories were added by 1944.
In 1949 the Chinese communist government won a civil war that made China communist.
1991 marked the fall of communism in Russia after the Berlin Wall was tore down.
In 1992 There was only a small amount of communist countries including China, Cuba, Laos ,North Korea and Vietnam.

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My opinion
Communism is a good idea, but as we know from history it can result in very bad ways. There can be conflict such as the Cold War. There can also be revolt such as the tiananmen square tank man. All in all communism works out when practiced the right way.

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