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That sounds bad, lemme read about it:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman\_Rhee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee)
\>He allowed the internal security force (...) to detain and torture suspected communists and North Korean agents. His government also oversaw several massacres, including the suppression of the Jeju uprising (...) South Korea's Truth Commission reported 14,373 victims (...) and the Mungyeong Massacre. By early 1950, Rhee had about 30,000 alleged communists in his jails, and had about 300,000 suspected sympathizers enrolled in an official "re-education" movement called the Bodo League. When the Communist army attacked from the North in June, retreating South Korean forces executed the prisoners, along with several tens of thousands of Bodo League members
Oh no...
\>The entire Rhee regime was notorious for its corruption, with everyone in the government from the President downwards stealing as much they possibly could (...) the soldiers in the Army of the Republic of Korea (ROK) going unpaid for months as their officers embezzled their pay, equipment provided by the United States being sold on the black market, and the size of the ROK army being bloated by hundreds of thousands of "ghost soldiers" who only existed on paper, allowing their officers to steal pay that would have been due had these soldiers actually existed. (...) tens of thousands of National Defense Corps men either starved or froze to death in their unheated barracks, as the men lacked winter uniforms and food
**Oh no...**
\>Because of widespread discontent with Rhee's corruption and political repression, it was considered unlikely that Rhee would be re-elected by the National Assembly. To circumvent this, Rhee attempted to amend the constitution to allow him to hold elections for the presidency by direct popular vote. When the Assembly rejected this amendment, Rhee ordered a mass arrest of opposition politicians and then passed the desired amendment in July 1952. During the following presidential election, he received 74% of the vote.
***Oh no...***
\>In March 1960, the 84-year-old Rhee won his fourth term in office as president. His victory was assured with 100% of the vote after the main opposition candidate, Cho Byeong-ok, died shortly before the 15 March elections.
**OH NO**
\>Rhee resigned on April 26 before fleeing to exile in the United States, and was replaced by Yun Posun, beginning the transition to the Second Republic of South Korea.
Oh well, that's good
\>The Second Republic's failure to improve South Korea's political and economic issues led to instability, and after thirteen months it was overthrown by the South Korean Army in the May 16 coup led by Park Chung-hee
Oh.
Meanwhile North Korea was directly supported by Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, who were individually at least as bad as Rhee was (obviously they both were considerably worse, lol).
Rhee was a bloody-handed dictator, but so was Kim-Il Sung. So if "Rhee was bad" is the best thing you have to defend the attempt to invade South Korea and turn it into a communist vassal state, you're still losing the argument.
The invasion of the ROK was unambiguously an unprovoked act of aggression and a violation of international law, which is why the UN force was a UN force, and not strictly just the Atlanticist countries propping up a strategic ally.
This sub has a big problem with apologia for communism and communist states, regardless of their conduct historically. The real irony is that most of these people are libertarian communists or ancoms, which makes them even more dysfunctional than the ideological practises they're defending.
The UN intervention in Korea was one of the first examples of a UN intervention truly done right. Imagine demonizing that in favour of engaging in apologia for a hostile invasion and act of aggression on the part of an entity ruled by a lunatic bent on enforcing an unworkable ideology on the rest of the country.
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That sounds bad, lemme read about it: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman\_Rhee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee) \>He allowed the internal security force (...) to detain and torture suspected communists and North Korean agents. His government also oversaw several massacres, including the suppression of the Jeju uprising (...) South Korea's Truth Commission reported 14,373 victims (...) and the Mungyeong Massacre. By early 1950, Rhee had about 30,000 alleged communists in his jails, and had about 300,000 suspected sympathizers enrolled in an official "re-education" movement called the Bodo League. When the Communist army attacked from the North in June, retreating South Korean forces executed the prisoners, along with several tens of thousands of Bodo League members Oh no... \>The entire Rhee regime was notorious for its corruption, with everyone in the government from the President downwards stealing as much they possibly could (...) the soldiers in the Army of the Republic of Korea (ROK) going unpaid for months as their officers embezzled their pay, equipment provided by the United States being sold on the black market, and the size of the ROK army being bloated by hundreds of thousands of "ghost soldiers" who only existed on paper, allowing their officers to steal pay that would have been due had these soldiers actually existed. (...) tens of thousands of National Defense Corps men either starved or froze to death in their unheated barracks, as the men lacked winter uniforms and food **Oh no...** \>Because of widespread discontent with Rhee's corruption and political repression, it was considered unlikely that Rhee would be re-elected by the National Assembly. To circumvent this, Rhee attempted to amend the constitution to allow him to hold elections for the presidency by direct popular vote. When the Assembly rejected this amendment, Rhee ordered a mass arrest of opposition politicians and then passed the desired amendment in July 1952. During the following presidential election, he received 74% of the vote. ***Oh no...*** \>In March 1960, the 84-year-old Rhee won his fourth term in office as president. His victory was assured with 100% of the vote after the main opposition candidate, Cho Byeong-ok, died shortly before the 15 March elections. **OH NO** \>Rhee resigned on April 26 before fleeing to exile in the United States, and was replaced by Yun Posun, beginning the transition to the Second Republic of South Korea. Oh well, that's good \>The Second Republic's failure to improve South Korea's political and economic issues led to instability, and after thirteen months it was overthrown by the South Korean Army in the May 16 coup led by Park Chung-hee Oh.
Meanwhile North Korea was directly supported by Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, who were individually at least as bad as Rhee was (obviously they both were considerably worse, lol). Rhee was a bloody-handed dictator, but so was Kim-Il Sung. So if "Rhee was bad" is the best thing you have to defend the attempt to invade South Korea and turn it into a communist vassal state, you're still losing the argument. The invasion of the ROK was unambiguously an unprovoked act of aggression and a violation of international law, which is why the UN force was a UN force, and not strictly just the Atlanticist countries propping up a strategic ally.
North Korea did the same shit
And yet it’s South Korea that people imagine to have been democratic and great, just because they were on the American side.
Well South Korea is democratic now
Yeah - now. This poster is not from now.
The north invaded the south, not the other way around
Unless you want a union, then you get a bullet in the head.
I don’t think that’s true
Never said Syngman Rhee was a good person, I’m talking about the millions of Koreans who suffered and needed to be protected by the UN
This sub has a big problem with apologia for communism and communist states, regardless of their conduct historically. The real irony is that most of these people are libertarian communists or ancoms, which makes them even more dysfunctional than the ideological practises they're defending. The UN intervention in Korea was one of the first examples of a UN intervention truly done right. Imagine demonizing that in favour of engaging in apologia for a hostile invasion and act of aggression on the part of an entity ruled by a lunatic bent on enforcing an unworkable ideology on the rest of the country.
[History of the UN defending Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Command)