Nepal - II

Communists way of capturing power in China, Korea, Vietnam and Cuba
After Mao Tse-tung's PLA captured power in China in 1949 and proclaimed the People's Republic of China, the PLA became the Army of the state. The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed China as the "rear base" for all Communist movements in Asia. It assisted North Korea in its war with the US-led coalition, North Vietnam in its war initially against the French and subsequently against the Americans and the South Vietnamese Army, and the Communist insurgencies in Malaysia, northern Thailand and Myanmar, and helped the Indonesian Communists in a big way till the military coup staged by the Indonesian Army under President Suharto saved the country from falling into the hands of the Communists.
The Burmese Army under Gen Ne Win similarly captured power in the early-1960s to prevent that country from falling into the hands of the Communists and other ethnic insurgent groups. In 1979, after 30 years of trying to export Maoism, Deng Xiaoping changed this policy and stopped exporting 'revolution' to other countries.
After capturing power in Cuba in the early-1960s, Mr Fidel Castro converted his armed guerrillas into the Army of the state and embarked on a policy of exporting the Cuban revolution to other Latin American countries, with Cuba serving as the rear base. The death of Che Guavera, who was asked to have this policy executed, allegedly at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency, put an end to Cuba's Communist dreams in Latin America, but till today, the Cuban Government and Communist Party continue with their attempts at political subversion in the Latin American countries.
Only Vietnam proved a refreshing contrast. After they defeated the Americans and the South Vietnamese Army in 1975 and re-united their country, they concentrated on development at home and avoided all ideological adventures abroad.
B Raman, The Pioneer, 29/04/2008