The global spread of the communist cult relies on violence and lies. When a great power exports this cult ideology to smaller nations, violence is the fastest and most effective method. If free societies fail to recognize the cult-like nature of communism, they will grow complacent about its export of evil ideology through violence or deception (such as the so-called “grand external propaganda plan” or “Confucius Institutes”). This chapter focuses on the expansion and infiltration of the communist cult in Asia, Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe. Communism's methods of infiltrating Western Europe and North America are more complex and will be discussed in detail in the next chapter.
The very fact that the Chinese Communist Party was able to seize power was, in reality, the result of the Soviet Union's policy of “exporting revolution.” In 1919, the Soviet Union established the “Third International” (Comintern), attempting to export revolution across the entire world and turn the whole international community red. The plan was quickly put into action: in April 1920, Comintern representative Grigori Voitinsky arrived in China, and in May he set up a liaison office in Shanghai to prepare for the founding of the “Chinese Communist Party.” For the more than thirty years that followed, right up until the CCP's founding of its regime, it remained nothing more than a satellite of the Soviet Communist Party. At the time, Mao Zedong drew a monthly stipend of 160 to 170 silver dollars from Soviet Russia as his salary, [1] while an ordinary worker in Shanghai at the time earned only about 20 yuan a month.
The CCP's seizure of power was also connected to the Communist Party's infiltration of the United States, which was one reason Truman abandoned his support for Chiang Kai-shek, effectively handing China over to the Soviet-backed CCP. Truman also made the decision to withdraw from Asia after World War II. In 1948, the United States withdrew its troops from Korea, and on January 5, 1950, Truman issued a statement declaring that the United States would pursue a policy of non-intervention in Asia, would provide no military assistance to Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, and would stay out of any war that might break out between Taiwan and the CCP. A week later, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Gooderham Acheson reaffirmed this policy, stating that the United States would stay out of any war that broke out on the Korean peninsula. [2] Although the United States later, in the wake of North Korea's invasion of South Korea and the resulting United Nations intervention, largely reversed its Asia policy, its earlier policy of non-intervention in Asia did indeed create the conditions for the expansion of communism across the continent.
The CCP has spared no expense in “exporting revolution.” Beyond training guerrilla forces in various countries, supplying weapons, and sending combat personnel to subvert legitimate governments, it also provided vast sums of money in support. At the height of the Cultural Revolution's frenzy in 1973, the CCP's “foreign aid” reached a record 7% of national fiscal expenditure. According to declassified files from the CCP's own Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “In 1960, in addition to the 10,000 tons of rice shipped to Guinea, 15,000 tons of wheat were shipped to Albania. From 1950 through the end of 1964, our country's foreign aid totaled 10.8 billion yuan in Chinese currency. Of this aid, the largest amounts were disbursed precisely during 1960-1964, the years of our country's greatest hardship [i.e., the ‘Great Famine’].” [3] During the Great Famine from 1958 to 1962, which caused tens of millions of deaths by starvation, “foreign aid” expenditures actually reached 2.36 billion yuan. [4] Had this money been used instead to buy grain, it would have been enough to save all 30 million people who starved to death. These wronged souls, therefore, were not only paying the price for the CCP's “Great Leap Forward,” but were also victims of the CCP's “exporting revolution” to devastate the world.