Tag: Communist

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27th February 1933: Reichstag building in Berlin set on fire in an arson attack

• 27th February 2026
• Tagged as: Arson, Communist, Fire, Germany, Hitler, Nazi, Reichstag, Van Der Lubbe

Communists were blamed for starting the fire in the Reichstag, and Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found and arrested.

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20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

• 20th December 2025
• Tagged as: Cheka, Communism, Communist, Lenin, Russia, Secret Police, USSR

Established following a decree by Lenin on 19 December, the Cheka’s focus was on defending the revolution by removing internal threats to the communist regime.

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14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union

• 14th August 2025
• Tagged as: Communism, Communist, Gdansk, Industrial Action, Industry, Poland, Politics, Strike, Work

Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to achieve political change.

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27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea

• 27th June 2025
• Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Communist, Containment, Korea, Korean War, North Korea, Truman, United Nations, USA

US President Harry S. Truman ordered air and naval forces to assist South Korea against an invasion by North Korea.

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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

• 16th April 2023
• Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Exile, Finland, First World War, Germany, Lenin, Nicholas II, Politics, Provisional Government, Revolution, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.

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12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

• 12th November 2022
• Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Kamenev, Lenin, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Trotsky, USSR, Zinoviev

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

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28th December 1972: Kim Il-sung becomes the first President of North Korea

• 28th December 2021
• Tagged as: Communism, Communist, Kim Il-sung, Korea, North Korea

Kim Il-sung was already the country’s Prime Minister and the First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and four years after his death in 1994 he was made Eternal President of the Republic.

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22nd December 1989: Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown

• 22nd December 2021
• Tagged as: 1989, Ceaușescu, Communism, Communist, Execution, Iron Curtain, Politics, Revolution, Romania

Following his overthrow, Ceausescu and his wife were subjected to a show trial on Christmas Day and found guilty of crimes including genocide and illegally gathering wealth before being executed.