Word: alimin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised to stop the drift to the West, and prepared the way for the country's first general election. In the prevailing climate of anti-Western opinion, the Communists drew the left wing of Wilopo's party into a "National Front" coalition. Directed by Moscow-trained Communist Alimin Prawirodirdjo, financed by Peking, the National Front began attacking the government, brought the country to the brink of civil war last October on the issue of military leadership. Only by yielding leadership of the army to the mutineers, and by agreeing to exchange embassies with Moscow and Peking, was Wilopo...
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