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CW: a litany of absurd horrors
Fun fact: US support for this regime was so thorough that we tried to do a Bay of Pigs (Valley of Llamas?) there and it went even worse than the original. Like, do not pass go, do not collect lethal aid, straight on the forgotten failure pile next to the Siberian War.
This is from Michael Parenti, if anyone’s wondering: Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth