Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights.
― Jacobo Árbenz explaining how the United States acted against him because of his communist reforms.
In this category are those heroes who have communist or socialist ideals. Although these ideologies are controversial, this does not mean that some of their thinkers have not done heroic acts.
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Mikhail Gorbachev -
Nelson Mandela -
Carlos Fonseca Amador -
Vasily Arkhipov -
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya -
Aman Andom -
Yuri Gagarin -
Georgy Zhukov
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