Indonesia cancels 1965 festival events
In 1965 communists in that country, too long tolerated, encouraged, and even supported by Sukarno, had enough mass as well as elite support to attempt a coup with relations to that leader that remain mysterious.
The coup was crushed and an onslaught against the communists ensued.
Today Indonesia is the most populous of Muslim nations and is pretty backward about it, though media that once wrote of moderates and hard liners in the Kremlin often describe Indonesia as a moderate Muslim land.
If you wonder how that could have happened, consider that body count.
Counterrevolution can be as bloody as revolution.
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