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In Japan in 1970, a group of communist rock musicians hijacked an airliner in support of North Korea. Was this solidarity unusual? To what extent did the mainstream Japanese left sympathize with Chinese, Vietnamese, and North Korean communist projects?

by /u/Vladith in /r/AskHistorians

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