In the 1960 Presidential elections, John F Kennedy became the democratic candidate despite his Catholicism.
This was surprising since Anti-Catholic sentiment was pretty high in mainstream American society at the time.
This was also seen as a reason why his presidential win was the closest in the history of the United States with a margin of just 118,000 out of 69 million votes.
He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he rose to become dictator of the Soviet Union, using a combination of manipulation and terror to destroy his opposition.
No, I believe it became communist then.
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The skill set of a person may be valuable or non-valuable based on what the demand for a certain product is. The more value for a skill the higher of a wage because the employer would want to keep the person with the skill. Like if having a cell phone is in high demand, people who have a skill in engineering will be paid more because they need someone who can program the phone to be the best.