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| | Communist Party Statistics Sources |
 | | Two of the world's most populous nations, China and the USSR, had Communist governments, and Communist parties also held power in Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ethiopia, Hungary, Laos, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. |
 | | Two left-wing nationalist groups, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos, allied themselves with the Viet Minh and were eventually successful in forming governments in their respective countries. |
 | | The party's membership was decimated in the 1950s by the investigations of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and by revelations about the despotic rule of Joseph Stalin in the USSR; by the 1980s, membership in the CPUSA had fallen to a few thousand. |
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