tldr:

a black operations unit of the Republic of Korea Air Force formed to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in 1968, in retaliation for the Blue House raid. The unit consisted of 31 civilian recruits, mostly petty criminals and unemployed youths, and underwent three years of harsh training on the island of Silmido. The assassination mission was cancelled in 1971 and the unit mutinied, resulting in a gun battle in Seoul in which most of the members of the unit were killed. The four survivors were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed.

Bourgeois media won't soyface over this

officially a detachment of the Republic of Korea Air Force’s 2325th Group, which recruited 31 civilians, either petty criminals or unemployed youths who were promised money and jobs if they succeeded in their mission

libs: "you need to change the system from within"

Park decided to mirror Unit 124's mission by forming an elite black operations unit of 31 men to assassinate Kim Il-sung, the leader of North Korea.

(Counterstrike announcer voice) "TERRORISTS WIN...Teams have been switched. Next round starting in 10...9...8..."

Unit 684's members were trained on Silmido, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Incheon in the Yellow Sea. Members of Unit 684 endured three years of exceptionally harsh training, during which seven members died.

There are no deadeyed neoliberal youtubers making parodies of this

Unit 684's assassination mission was cancelled in August 1971 following an improvement in relations between North Korea and South Korea.

On 23 August 1971, the 24 surviving members of Unit 684 mutinied, killed all but six of their guards, and made their way to the mainland, where they hijacked a bus to Seoul. The bus was stopped by the army in the Daebang-dong neighborhood of Dongjak District, Seoul. Twenty members of the unit were shot or committed suicide with hand grenades.

"nooo you brainwashed me into being a fascist weapon, let me do my job damn it!" (murders the guards and continues to do their indoctrinated demonic capitalist praxis)

A contemporary news report in The New York Times stated that 23 members of the unit, described by the Defense Minister Chung Rae-hyuk as "special criminals,"

unruly proletariat, a special kind of evil :amber:

The Defense Minister declined to explain why non-military personnel had been kept in military custody.

Yang stated that most of the unit's members were petty criminals, stating that "They were the kind who would get into street fights a lot." Yang also gives his version of why the uprising occurred: "They revolted because they felt that they were never going to get the chance to go to North Korea and that they would never be allowed to leave the island. They were in despair."

fascist death cult has no political imagination for a better future smh, this is why we need to teach Marx to teens, so they can have hope and dream of a better life outside of being a soulless war machine crab for capital...crabitalism

    • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I remember back when I was an ancom and this was what made Lenin a bad guy in my mind. Funny how learning a bit about history can completely change your perspective

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        even in the official version it was a naval base in a civil war that was against the Communists. Of course that resulted in fighting

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    There was a Lions Led By Donkeys episode about this. But of course Joe Kassabian (former US soldier host who is always "both sidesing" fascism and Marxism) and his co-host Liam Anderson (constantly drunk and proudly ignorant liberal who pretends to be an anarchist) couldn't get the story straight.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    They made a movie about it.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmido_(film)