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The maoists didn't stand a chance until India supported them against the king. You can make all the excuses you want, but the blame belongs with the people who supported the maoists against the king, not with the king who tried to fight them. What good is democracy in Nepal if it only paves the way for Communist dictatorship? About as good as the Kerensky “democracy” was in Russia. They helped communists take over the country. To blame the victims of the communists is only to attempt draw moral equivalence between communists and their victims in order to justify and whitewash communist atrocities.

I don’t justify communist atrocities at all. But the simple fact of the matter is, these violent revolutionary movements become successful when the government they seek to replace is terrible. That is a fact that needs to be faced up to, and no amount of right-thinking anti-communist ideology is going to change that...