One of the basic tenents of communism is that it would spread by popular uprising. The "domino effect" was based on the theory that Lenin and Marx's ideas would actually work, ie that people "repressed" in one capitalist country would see the unbridled joy that communism brought to the "freed" people in a neighboring country, and revolt. The Domino Theory was flawed in that it gave communism too much credit: there's never been a country where the majority "asked" to become communist, it's always been forced upon them by an armed minority.
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