Portal:Communism/Did you know archive

• ...that the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?

• ...that the 36 members of the first Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party elected after the Carnation Revolution had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.

• ...that Charles Nqakula, the Minister of Safety and Security of South Africa and chairperson of the SACP underwent military training in Angola, East Germany, and the Soviet Union in order to fight in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC?

• ...that Wogan Philipps was the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain to sit in the House of Lords?

• ...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?

• ...that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s?

• ...that Moscow City Hall, built in the 1890s to the tastes of the Russian bourgeoisie, was converted by Communists into the Central Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over?