In the interests of time. there is no need to go into all the attributes of a Communist system. We all know what they areand we also know that every one of them applies to Nicaragua. But lets look at just one. the single most important telltale sign: Refugees. At least one Nicaraguan in every five is now living somewhere else. most of them having lost everything during the desperate flight out of the country. The only means by which a Communist country can perpetuate the myth of full employment is to create refugees and conscripts. Either drive people out through the sheer weight of repression. or inflate the size of the military. drafting everything in sight that can carry a gun. In the case of the Sandinistas. that means building a conscript army eight times larger than the one Somoza had. it means building up armed forces that outnumber those in all of the other Central American countries put together. and it means declaring a revolution without borders.
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Communist countries create refugees to perpetuate the myth of full employment.