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the lesson taken away by nearly every survivor of the slaughter of these movements is basically that the guerrillas and hardliners were right--the West will never accept even a mild leftist government and will always try to crush it with terror, be it through well funded paramilitaries or militaries or direct intervention. The western mode of control when push comes to shove isn't just lies and rewriting history, it's killings fueled by those lies. Dissapearings, or even killing whole villages wholesale. At this specific historical juncture I can't help but be reminded of the anti-colonial struggle of survival which Palestine and Lebanon are engaged in. The rhetorical leaps to justify mass killings are all there, they're all the same, and as it gets more extreme and less apologetic and media becomes more censored and consolidated... The violence of this system, the mass killing machine called US empire has not stopped, not even slowed since "winning" the cold war.