caribny posted:GTAngler posted:This was told to me by one of Jagan's inner circle. A rice farmer from the East Coast Demerara. The Soviet Union offered Jagan weapons. They would refuse some rice shipments and smuggle arms in them. Jagan refused because he didn't want more bloodshed. Some may disagree with that and call him naive but a true leader thinks of his people first. The only similarities between Jagan and Jagdeo are the "Jag" and they are both Indo-Guyanese.
Total nonsense. By the time the 60s rolled around the Indian elites were already embedded in the PPP following the apan jhat votes of 1961 and 1957.
PYO operatives were sent to Cuba for training and weapons were shipped to the PPP from Castro. This is just as how the PNC/UF received weapons from the CIA.
And to show how ridiculous you look why would the USSR liaise with the potentially reactionary anti communist rice farmer when there were a whole cadre of PYO operatives who they had already trained? Jagan sent them to Cuba for training in the use of covert violent tactics, bomb making, etc.
Jagan wanted power. In 1964 it was agreed by the British that elections would occur under the new PR rules.
Jagan feared that he would lose this election as it was evident that the PNC and the UF would coalesce afterward. He wanted to delay the elections and unleashed a reign of violence to achieve that goal. Just as the PNC and the UF did in 1962/3 when they wanted to set up the conditions were an early election under new rules would occur.
Please disabuse yourself of this notion that the PPP were angels. They were every bit as dirty and violent and power obsessed as was the PNC and the UF. Your elders fooled you, and you aren't sensible enough to understand that in any struggle the truth lies in between what either side says.
When I come at you in response, must cry like a little girl again that I made personal attacks. Show me where I said the PPP were angels. I also specifically said Jagan meaning Cheddi. We had a short lived respite from your idiocy but I can see you're back. As usual you just read what you wanted. This was a story passed on to me by a now deceased old man.