August 5, 2011: Democratic US Senator Bernie Sanders: "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?" June 1, 2012: Hugo Chavez bans private gun ownership in Venezuela July 30, 2017, President of Venezuela Maduro votes to upend constitution August 1, 2017, Maduro's secret police forcibly drag opposition leaders from their homes

Obviously, the Comintern logo showed someone _forging_ the chains of slavery, not breaking them.