From 1946 up until the year 2000 the U.S meddled covertly or overtly in ~80 elections. Russia/USSR did the same in aprox. half that. Why would anyone make such a fuzz about their opponent doing exactly the same as what they have been doing with great success for decades?

Are you trying to say that other nations cannot or should not do exactly what you are doing because you have some kind of moral superiority?. Hogwash! You are actually the best/worst in class. Youre dropping thousands of kilos of bombs every single day, killing tens of thousands of people every year in more than a hundred countries. You are just as bad as the worst, if not the very worst there is.

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I have been trying to explain this to my friends for a couple of years but nobody seems to listen. Therefore I decided to find the actual data. The U.S. professor that finally decided to share the facts with me wanted to make sure that I would only use it for private purposes. Im sorry, doc! My middle name is Transparency.

Proudly I present the facts, full well knowing that all you have to do is claim it is “Fake news!” Anyone wanting to validate this list can do so by contacting me or paying PEIG a few dollars.

Argentina U.S. 1946 Jose P. Tamborini Overt

Hungary USSR 1947 MKP Overt

Italya U.S. 1948 DC Overtc

Italya USSR 1948 PCI Covert

U.S. USSR 1948 Henry A. Wallace Overt

Israel U.S. 1949 Mapai Overt

Finland USSR 1950 * Overt

Japan U.S. 1952 Liberal Party Overt

West Germany U.S. 1953 CDU Overt

Italya U.S. 1953 DC Overtc

Italya USSR 1953 PCI Covert

Japan U.S. 1953 Liberal Party Overtc

Philippines U.S. 1953 Ramon Magsaysay Covert

Brazil U.S. 1955 Juarez Tavora Covert

Indonesia U.S. 1955 Masjumi Covert

Laos U.S. 1955 NPP Covert

Finland USSR 1956 Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Overt

Iceland U.S. 1956 Independence Party Overt

Sri Lanka U.S. 1956 UNP Overt

West Germany USSR 1957 SPD Overt

Lebanon U.S. 1957 Supporters of Camille Chamoun Covert

Philippines U.S. 1957 Jose Yulo Covert

Greecea U.S. 1958 ERE Covert

Greecea USSR 1958 EDA Overt

Guatemala U.S. 1958 Jose Luis Cruz Salazar Covert

Italy U.S. 1958 DC Covert

Japan U.S 1958 LDP Overtc

Laos U.S. 1958 NPP Overt

Venezuela USSR 1958 Wolfgang Larazabal Covert

Malaysia U.S. 1959 UNMO Covert

Nepal U.S. 1959 Nepali Congress Party Covert

San Marino U.S. 1959 PDCS Covert Democratic Republic of the Congo

USSR 1960 MNC Covert

Japan U.S 1960 LDP Covert

Laos U.S. 1960 CDNI Covert

Sri Lanka U.S 1960 (March) UNP Covert

Sri Lanka U.S 1960 (July) UNP Covert

Greece U.S. 1961 ERE Covert

Philippines U.S. 1961 Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Covert

South Vietnam† U.S. 1961 Ngo Dinh Diem Covert

Brazil U.S. 1962 ** Covert

Canada USSR 1962 Liberal Party Overt

Finland USSR 1962 Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Overt

Peru U.S 1962 Victor Raul Haya De La Torre Covert

Italy U.S 1963 DC Covert

Japan U.S 1963 LDP Covert

Bolivia† U.S. 1964 Victor Paz Estenssoro Covert

Chilea U.S 1964 Eduardo Frei Montalva Covert

Chilea USSR 1964 Salvador Allende Gossens Covert

Somalia U.S. 1964 *** Covert

Sri Lanka U.S. 1965 UNP Covert

Bolivia U.S. 1966 Rene Barrientos Covert Ortuno

Costa Rica U.S. 1966 Daniel Oduber Quiros Covert Dominican Republic

U.S. 1966 Joaquin Beleaguer Covert

India USSR 1967 CPI Covert

Laos U.S 1967 **** Covert

Finland USSR 1968 Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Overt

Guyana U.S. 1968 PNC Covert

Italy U.S. 1968 DC Covert

West Germany USSR 1969 SPD Overt

Thailand U.S. 1969 UTPT Covert

Chilea U.S. 1970 Radomiro Tomic & Jorge Allesanderi Covert

Chilea USSR 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens Covert

Costa Rica USSR 1970 Jose Figueres Ferrer Covert

Pakistan USSR 1970 Awami League Covert

Malta U.S. 1971 PN Covert

Uruguay U.S. 1971 Colorados/Juan Maria Bordaberry Covert

South Vietnam † U.S. 1971 Nguyen Van Thieu Covert

West Germany USSR 1972 SPD Covert

Italya U.S. 1972 DC Covert

Italya USSR 1972 PCI Covert

Japan USSR 1972 JCP Covert

Bangladesh USSR 1973 Awami League Covert

Denmark USSR 1973 DKP Covert

France USSR 1974 Francois Mitterrand Covert

Greece USSR 1974 United Left Covert

Denmark USSR 1975 DKP Covert

Italya U.S. 1976 DC Overt

Italya USSR 1976 PCI Covert

India USSR 1977 Congress party (I) Covert

West Germany USSR 1980 SPD Covert

Iran U.S. 1980 (Jan.) Ahmad Madani Covert

Jamaica U.S. 1980 Jamaican Labor Party Covert

El Salvador U.S. 1982 Christian Democratic Party/Duarte Overtc

Mauritius U.S. 1982 Labor Party Covert

West Germany USSR 1983 SPD Overt

Italy U.S 1983 DC Covert

El Salvador U.S 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte Covert

Grenada U.S. 1984 New National Party Overtc

Panama U.S. 1984 Nicolas Ardito Barletta Covert

U.S. USSR 1984 Walter F. Mondale Covert

Costa Rica U.S. 1986 Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier Covert

U.K U.S. 1987 Conservatives Overt

Chile† U.S. 1988 ‘No’ Campaign Overt

France USSR 1988 Andre Lajoinie Covert

Panama U.S. 1989 Guillermo Endara Covert

Bulgaria U.S. 1990 UDF Overt

Czechoslovakia U.S 1990 OF-VPN Overt

Haiti U.S. 1990 Marc Louis Bazin Covert

Nicaragua U.S. 1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Overtc

Romania U.S. 1990 PNL Overt

Albania U.S. 1991 PDSH Overt

Bulgaria U.S 1991 UDF Covert

Albania U.S. 1992 PDSH Covert

Israel U.S. 1992 Labor Overt

Lithuania Russia 1992 LDDP Overt

Romania U.S. 1992 CDR Covert

Yugoslavia/Serbia U.S. 1992 Milan Panic Overt

Cambodia U.S. 1993 FUNCINPEC Covert

Belarus Russia 1994 Vyacheslav F. Kebich Overt

Ukraine U.S. 1994 Leonid Kravchuk Overt

Israel U.S. 1996 Shimon Peres/Labor Overt

Russia U.S. 1996 Boris N. Yeltsin Overtc

Latvia Russia 1998 TSP Overt

Slovakia U.S. 1998 SDK Covert

Israel U.S. 1999 Ehud Barak/One Israel Covert

Yugoslavia/Serbia U.S 2000 Vojislav Kostunica Overt

Notes:

a Double interventions (the U.S. backing one side while the USSR/Russia backing another side

during the same election).

b Name of candidate in presidential elections, name of party in parliamentary elections. Main

candidate/ party only.

c An overt intervention that also included a significant covert component.

†Cases of partisan electoral interventions in elections which weren’t competitive following my

criteria, usually due to last moment boycotts of the elections by one of the major sides which

were widely expected to contest them or (in the 1988 Chilean case) a rare example of a relatively

competitive plebiscite.

* Identity of aided candidate in this election not fully certain, besides being a competitor to Pres.

Paasikivi, given available data (although probably Urho Kekkonen).

** Identity of aided candidate/party in this election, besides being part of the opposition to Pres.

Goulart, unknown given available data.

*** Identity of aided candidate/party, besides being among the losers of this election, unknown

given available data.

**** Identity of aided candidate/party unknown given available data.