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<p>Created page with &quot;Laos is a small country in Southeast Asia between Vietnam and Thailand. It currently has a <a href="/reagan_wiki/index.php?title=Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> government. == Speech Relevance == Laos is mentioned brief...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Laos is a small country in Southeast Asia between Vietnam and Thailand. It currently has a [[Communism|communist]] government.<br /> <br /> == Speech Relevance ==<br /> Laos is mentioned briefly in &#039;[[Encroaching Control]]&#039;:<br /> &lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&#039;&#039;[[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], in 1923, said, &quot;We will take [[Eastern Europe]], we will organize the hordes of Asia and we won&#039;t have to take the United States. We will surround it and that last bastion of capitalism will fall into our outstretched hand like overripe fruit.&quot; Well, they&#039;ve taken [[Eastern Europe]]. They are organizing the hordes of Asia around the red colossus of [[China]] and today I&#039;m sure many of us suspect we are being prepared for the bitter cup of capitulation in Laos that will be watered down only slightly by a few face-saving devices. [[Cuba]] is a Russian beach head 90 miles off our Florida coast and more telling that even that, 250,000 communist professional organizers are scattered up and down the length and breadth of [[Latin America]].&#039;&#039;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;<br /> In 1961, Laos was in the midst of a civil war between a communist faction known as the Pathet Lao, and the royalist government. The communists were aided by the [[Soviet Union]] and North Vietnam. The royalists were supported by the United States. In many ways, this civil war little more than a proxy war in the overall [[Cold War]]. It has also been called a hidden theater of the [[Vietnam War]].<br /> <br /> The war ended in 1975 with a victory by the communists.<br /> <br /> == Source Links ==<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos Laos &#039;&#039;(Wikipedia)&#039;&#039;]<br /> <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War Laotian Civil War &#039;&#039;(Wikipedia)&#039;&#039;]</div>

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