Give me an atrocity committed by leftist forces, and I’ll justify it for you.
They totes were, but the Angolan civil war began while Mao was still the Chairman of the CPC
Is a senile old man with a personal grudge being allowed to make that sort of a decision a justification though?
It’s definitely an explanation, but I’d hesitate to say being senile and having a grudge or wanting to obey a senile old man with a grudge justifies sending armaments, money, diplomatic support and intel to a dictatorial colonial regime to aid their efforts in suppressing a decolonial Marxist revolt, especially when it means siding against the rest of international communism.
I’m gonna say once again, Leftist. The revisionists exploiting Mao’s confusion and Mao wanting to fuck over Brezhnev and the rest aren’t suitable as classification for leftists.
I could stretch it and say they wanted as many armed groups in the area as possible to make the US continue sinking resources into it, but that usually doesn’t entail helping the US’s puppets
