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>as you can see today in the Middle East and Africa
Daily reminder that the Middle East and Africa were the hotbeds for secular, materialist-minded, internationalist yet localized movements, and Euro-American power assassinated most of the people involved in these developments, isolated those they couldn't assassinate forcing many of them to take authoritarian nationalist paths, installed reactionary puppet-regimes to kill off the local resistances, and aided uneducated peasantry in weapons and reactionary propaganda in fighting their "enemies" (including those puppet-regimes later down the road).