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    excellent answer, thank you. anyone know if Ortega's Nicaragua elections in the mid/late 80s would also qualify? did he leave voluntarily or was he pushed out? Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 8:05
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    @ItalianPhilosopher That was 1990. I suppose you could say he left "voluntarily" despite the Contras and the embargo. But it's pretty debatable whether the FSLN were Communist at that point. A more explicitly Communist party was part of the opposition that won in 1990. Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 12:40
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    @ItalianPhilosopher, Ortega came to power by overthrowing Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. He lost an election in 1990 to Violeta Chamorro and left office peacefully in 1990. So that would count. I added my answer below. Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 23:33
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    +1. Notes. 1. Lots of prejudice against the communist word erodes most discussions. 2. Communist is not Socialism, many terms begs precise definition to give a more precise answer. 3. If we see communist as a political movement born in Victorian Europe to fight monarchy and realize the nations where there such a revolution occurred never has known democracy in the first place can uncloud some questions. Commented Mar 8, 2019 at 12:04
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    @jean I agree that communism and socialism are different (socialism being much broader) but the definitions in many English dictionaries are practically identical. I consider this an example of Cold War propaganda. Socialists in America still struggle to be understood as anything other than Soviet-style Communists. Commented Mar 8, 2019 at 21:30