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At the end of World War Two, the Japanese pulled out a couple months before the US & Russia could occupy Korea. In that time workers' started taking over the factories, peasants the land & self-managed communes were set up. In Seoul a provisional Korean government was set up, but it's power was weak and mostly limited to the capital. There was quite a bit of freedom in these few months. It was very close to anarchy, despite the fact that the Korean anarchist movement had been mostly wiped out after its' defeat in their Manchurian guerilla war. This short experience of anarchy in Korea shows an alternative to class society and that anarchy works in practice. A few months after this started, the USSR & US each invaded and imposed brutal client states on their half of the peninsula in order to squelch this 'threat of a good example.' Both puppet governments were responsible for massive slaughters and repression.