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==Record of the Secretary-Generals==
==Record of the Secretary-Generals==
When the first UN secretary-general, Trygve Lie of [[Norway]], a Stalinist sympathizer, was the Minister of Justice in Norway, he told Lenin's former right-hand man [[Leon Trotsky]] not to criticize Stalin or else he would be imprisoned and or kicked out of Norway; Lie eventually put him in prison, but later according to Stalin's wishes exiled him to Mexico where one of Stalin's hit men assassinated him by hitting his head with a pickax in 1940.<ref>https://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/trygvie-lie.asp#.WVBpUoWcE2w</ref> As secretary-general, he failed to maintain peace in the 1947 Kashmir conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and the [[Korean War]] from 1950-1953.
When the first UN secretary-general, Trygve Lie of [[Norway]], a Stalinist sympathizer, was the Minister of Justice in Norway, he told Lenin's former right-hand man [[Leon Trotsky]] not to criticize Stalin or else he would be imprisoned and or kicked out of Norway; Lie eventually put him in prison, but later according to Stalin's wishes exiled him to [[Mexico]] where one of Stalin's hit men assassinated him by hitting his head with a pickax in 1940.<ref>https://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/trygvie-lie.asp#.WVBpUoWcE2w</ref> As secretary-general, he failed to maintain peace in the 1947 Kashmir conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and the [[Korean War]] from 1950-1953.
The second secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold of [[Sweden]], former head of the Bank of Sweden, the oldest central bank in the world, even older than the Bank of England, heavily favored Red China a lot, and used UN troops to crush the Katanga province of Zaire tried to get its independence from the Marxist government.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/23064-socialist-in-chief-a-history-of-the-un-secretaries-general</ref>
The second secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjold of [[Sweden]], former head of the Bank of Sweden, the oldest central bank in the world, even older than the Bank of England, heavily favored Red China a lot, and used UN troops to crush the Katanga province of Zaire tried to get its independence from the Marxist government.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/23064-socialist-in-chief-a-history-of-the-un-secretaries-general</ref>