Article: Like Soviets, mullahs export ideology.

One of the principal objections to Soviet communism in its heyday was that V.I. Lenin, Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev sought to "export" the Bolshevik Revolution to the democracies and to the colonial world by conspiring against and subverting existing noncommunist governments. The export of revolution was an indispensable staple of communism because it pseudolegitimized the Bolshevik demand for sacrifices from the proletariat in order to fulfill Marx's misplaced prophecies.

That is why Lenin and Stalin established the Comintern and then the Cominform as "transmission belts" to export revolution. Later when it became clear that a communist world was not quite ...

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