Another precious moment from shrub...

[Reese]

At 01:51 AM 10/20/01 -0700, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

 >In Africa two Soviet sponsored tyrannies, both of which had been committing
 >mass murder on an enormous scale, were overthrown though not replaced by
 >democracies.

Do these two former-Soviet/current-? have names?

 >In Latin America one Soviet sponsored tyranny was overthrown, and replaced
 >by democracy,

Name?

 >and several regimes that had been fighting wars against Soviet
 >proxy troops supported by Cuba won victories, making it possible for them to
 >become democracies.

Names?