Yugoslavia also provided military aid and arms supplies to staunchly anti-Communist regimes such as that of Guatemala under Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García.

Training was provided to so-called friendly anti-Communist regimes, without regard to whether they were dictatorships or not.

In the People's Republic of Bulgaria the situation was more complex, because the IMRO was associated with the 1923-34 anti-communist regime.

This has deep roots; two generations of liberals have been infuriated by our support of anti-Communist regimes in Central and South America.

During the cold war aid was doled out to corrupt anti-Communist regimes that did nothing to improve the conditions of the poor.

Washington, eager to maintain an anti-Communist regime reliably aligned with the U.S. in cold war confrontations, rarely objected to these prevarications.

Perhaps it was the not-so-subtle impact of the cold war, of a time when the West found it convenient to rationalize the excesses of anti-Communist regimes.

Despite some leftist governments during the 1940s, the country was ruled by conservative governments and anti-communist regimes during the 1950s.

It now appears that Bevin was beginning to doubt if the anti-communist regime in Greece could prevail in the civil war with the communists.

It was applied by leftist civilian governments and anti-Communist military regimes, and it failed them all.