georgephillip
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Lyuh was a center-left Korean politician widely attacked by extremists on the right and left; he was assassinated by a 19 year-old recent refugee who was an active member of a right wing terrorist group.I know about communist attempts to rewrite history
Maybe the marxist lies succeeded with you
But the fact is that communist north korea invaded the south and only intervention by the United Nations lead by the United States prevented enslavement of the whole country by the marxists
BTW: Lyuh Woon-hyung was a communist
Lyuh Woon-hyung - Wikipedia
"Lyuh Woon-hyung or Yo Un-hyungLyuh Woon-hyung - Wikipedia (25 May 1886 – 19 July 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace, and a reunification activist who struggled for the independent reunification of Korea following its national division in 1945..."
"He is also known by his pen name Mongyang (몽양; 夢陽).
"He is rare among politicians in modern Korean history for being revered in both South and North Korea.[
Apparently you're ignorant of the fact Korean communists fought as US allies against Imperial Japan while many Korean capitalists were more likely to collaborate with Japan's brutal occupation. Hence, Korean communists were far more likely to win free elections in 1945 than US puppets like Syngman Rhee.