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* [Why did Lenin abolish factory committees established by workers?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ypaur/why_did_lenin_abolish_factory_committees/)
* [How much of the USSR's "dark history" under Stalin can actually be attributed to Yezhov?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2qlm9z/how_much_of_the_ussrs_dark_history_under_stalin/)
* [Forced Deportation Under Stalin](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/316tey/forced_deportation_under_stalin/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/ddedgw/marxistleninistswhat_do_you_think_of_the/f2hwvlm/)
* [Did the Soviet Union manufacture a famine in Ukraine? What about the Holodomor?](https://reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/a7njo6/66_of_russians_say_that_they_regret_that_the_ussr/ec4skiw?context=3), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1c4to0/is_there_a_different_aspectpov_to_the_holodomor/),[3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/79nmdh/red_famine_by_anne_applebaum_what_is_this_all/),[4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_the_soviet_union_manufactured_a_famine_in_ukraine),[5](https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508091025560345/), [A podcast on Stalin, Holodomor, and the purges.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
* [Did the Soviet Union manufacture a famine in Ukraine? What about the Holodomor?](https://reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/a7njo6/66_of_russians_say_that_they_regret_that_the_ussr/ec4skiw?context=3), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1c4to0/is_there_a_different_aspectpov_to_the_holodomor/),[3](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/79nmdh/red_famine_by_anne_applebaum_what_is_this_all/),[4](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_the_soviet_union_manufactured_a_famine_in_ukraine),[5](https://sputniknews.com/politics/201508091025560345/), [6](https://twitter.com/oktyabrvperedi/status/1263168006026416130?s=20), [A podcast on Stalin, Holodomor, and the purges.](https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain)
* [Did Stalin / the USSR intentionally wreck the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War / Revolutionary Catalonia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1e1bhf/what_was_the_role_of_ussr_in_revolutionary_spain/c9w2jva/) , [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1jlpyu/what_contributed_to_the_fallingout_between/cbg3v0p/)
* [Did the early USSR repress anarchists? What about Nestor Makhno and the Free territory of Ukraine?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/64wkgf/polemic_the_anarchokulak_bandits_of_russia_and/)
* [A brief history of Nestor Makhno.](http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml)
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#### Imperialism
- After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an [average of 30k bombs / year during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy), [2](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636), [3](https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1261744000396152842?s=20). In 2016 alone, dropped [26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html), up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, [Pakistan](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?smid=tw-share), Libya, and [Somalia](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/?utm_term=.fbeafe46df71).
- Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which **90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but [innocent civilian bystanders](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers)**, including women, [children](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/), and US citizens. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_drone_strikes). Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the [Obama administration](https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/10/KC_Heads01.png) has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized [10 times more drone strikes](https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2017/01/17/obamas-covert-drone-war-numbers-ten-times-strikes-bush/) than George W Bush, [2](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html). The Obama asassination program is detailed in the [drone papers](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers).
- Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which **90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but [innocent civilian bystanders](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers)**, including women, [children](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/), and US citizens. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_drone_strikes). Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the [Obama administration](https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/10/KC_Heads01.png) has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized [10 times more drone strikes](https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2017/01/17/obamas-covert-drone-war-numbers-ten-times-strikes-bush/) than George W Bush, [2](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html). The Obama assassination program is detailed in the [drone papers](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers).
- On 3 October 2015, he ordered a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship to attack the [Kunduz Trauma Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike) operated by Doctors Without Borders, in northern Afghanistan. The attack killed 42 people and wounded 30 more. The airstrike constitutes a war crime (attacks on hospitals are considered war crimes), and is the first instance of one Nobel peace prize winner (Obama) bombing and killing another (Doctors without borders). CNN and the New York Times deliberately obscured the US's responsibility for the bombing, with the headline, "US is blamed after bomb hits afghan hospital". [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike),[2](https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/cnn-and-the-nyt-are-deliberately-obscuring-who-perpetrated-the-afghan-hospital-attack/)
- In 2010, President Obama [directed the CIA](http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/) to [assassinate an US citizen](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/) in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with any crime, killing him [with a September, 2011 drone strike](https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-awlaki-yemen-live). Two weeks later, a separate CIA drone strike in Yemen [killed his 16-year-old American-born son](http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/), Abdulrahman, along with the boy’s 17-year-old cousin and several other innocent Yemenis. In a predictable display of bipartisanship, in January 2017, Trump ordered a SEAL strike, and reports from Yemen [quickly surfaced](http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-yemen-qaeda-idUKKBN15D094) that 30 people were killed, including 10 women and children. Among the dead: the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar Awlaki, sister of the 16 year old killed by Obama. [1](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/)
- [Escalated the war in Afghanistan](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120991044), deploys an additional 30k troops in 2009.
- [Admitted to supporting and arming Neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalist groups like the Azov battalion in Ukraine to overthrow it's former pro-Russia govt](http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/02/obama-admits-us-role-in-ukraine-overthrow/), [2](https://www.globalresearch.ca/washington-was-behind-ukraine-coup-obama-admits-that-us-brokered-a-deal-in-support-of-regime-change/5429142). Ukraine now has a [pro-US, nazi-glorifying government](https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/10/21/how-to-mainstream-neo-nazis-a-lesson-from-ukraines-new-government/) with [ultranationalism, anti-semitism, neo-nazi pogroms, and attacks on LGBT groups.](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/)
- [Obama and Hillary Clinton rigged Haiti's 2010 election, threatening the then-president with removing US financial aid, unless their OAS candidate, Michel Martelly, won the election, after he forced other popular candidates to drop out.](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2046634,00.html) This is a continuation of ["Operation uphold democracy"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uphold_Democracy), in which US troops invaded Haiti to overthrow democratically elected president Jean-Baptiste Aristide in 1991, who is still in exile. [Lobbied to lower Haiti's minimum wage to $0.30 / hour.](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/)
- Obama continued backing [Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who helped the US fight Saddam, giving him $2B every year](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/). After Mubarak became was exposed for corruption in the 2009 Arab Spring, the US entered talks with [Suleiman, a CIA collaborator and Mubarak's vice president intelligence chief known for torturing people on behalf of the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman) The US then granted him asylum and medical treatment.
- Obama continued backing [Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who helped the US fight Saddam, giving him $2B every year](https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support-egyptian-democracy-lasted-roughly-six-weeks/). After Mubarak was exposed for corruption in the 2009 Arab Spring, the US entered talks with [Suleiman, a CIA collaborator and Mubarak's vice president intelligence chief known for torturing people on behalf of the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Suleiman) The US then granted him asylum and medical treatment.
- Obama continued support for Israel and their genocide of Palestineans, leaving a parting gift of his presidency to Israel of [$38B in military aid over the next 10 years.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI) “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I are confident that the new MOU will make a significant contribution to Israel’s security in what remains a dangerous neighborhood,” Obama wrote.
- Finally acheived the US goal of overthrowing Gaddafi and destabilizing Libya. From 2011 onward, began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the [Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)). This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths. Loyalist towns were bombed to rubble and ethnically cleansed, and the country is in chaos as Western-trained and armed Islamist militias seize territory and oil facilities and vie for power. The Misrata militia, trained and armed by Western special forces, is one of the most violent and powerful in the world.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)) The country has since collapsed into a chaos of child soldiers, slavery, and violence between extremist groups, a haunting repetition of what US imperialism has left in its wake in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. [An interview with Gaddafi's former spokesman about the US overthrow of Libya.](https://www.rt.com/news/470321-libya-gaddafi-spokesman-interview/) When pressured, Obama stated that "not managing the aftermath of overthrowing Gaddafi" was ["the greatest mistake of his presidency."](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama-says-libya-was-worst-mistake-of-his-presidency)
- In 2009, [Obama and Hillary Clinton assisted in the military coup of democratically elected leftist leader Zelaya of Honduras, who the US saw as a threat to US business interests](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence), [2](.https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/). [Leaked emails](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2157083-peanut-gallery.html) found that [Hillary was brokering a deal with the coup leaders, to ensure Zelaya would be prevented from returning to power](https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/), and Obama [blocked a proposed resolution requiring Zelaya's return](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honduras/pressure-mounts-on-honduras-to-end-coup-crisis-idUSN287369520090929). After the coup, at least [116 anti-US environmental activists have been murdered by the pro-US regime.](https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/) [2](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/) The US now faces [massive immigration from the very same countries it destabilized](https://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-migration-65935), then deports them in a never-ending cycle of oppression. [Obama says that deporting Honduran immigrants will send a message that "they will not be welcome to this country."](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715)