Word: communisms
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...forces might still have the luck, skill and power to slow the Communist drive and withdraw in good order from the devastated peninsula, it was a defeat that could not be redressed in Korea. If this defeat were allowed to stand, it would mean the loss of Asia to Communism...
...only way the statesmen could save the U.N. forces would be through a plea for an armistice, or acceptance of a deal with the Communists. By any such deal, Communism would emerge triumphant. The alternative was war-that is, a recognition of the terrible fact that the U.S. and Communist China were already in a state of war. That would mean, inescapably, a campaign against the mainland of China...
...declaration of independence on America's. These facts could lead to a romantic string of what-ifs; indeed, some former U.S. diplomats contend on-camera that Ho might have become a U.S. ally. But the documentary is careful to depict Ho's lifelong commitment to Communism and his close ties with the Soviet Union and China...
There are domestic political effects as well. Because Koreans view the Russian attack as an attack on Korea, they have rallied strongly to their nation and to their President Chun Do Hwam. Strong antipathies to communism have been reinforced, and the government has announced that material on the Soviet action will be added to anti-Communist instructional materials--materials intended to teach how Koreans themselves have suffered because of communism. This rallying to the nation has pushed other political domestic questions aside, to the short-term benefit of the Chun government...
...condemn the act as imperialist. Cold War brutality. Our allies would openly condemn the act, as would the rest of the world. The Russians would most probably take the opportunity to encourage Third World nations to avoid such barbarie capitalists and turn to the inherently peace-loving security of communism. Needless to say, the respect the world's citizens hold for us would inevitably--and deservedly--trade drastically...