Operation Coldstore was kind of the opposite to the above: Yew and foreign "allies" taking out pesky left-wingers and pro-worker representation.
Re:Lee Kuan Yew on Malta
by shotnothing on Saturday January 20, 2024 @07:15PM
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but there was heavy foreign influence and support on the left-wingers and pro-worker representation, from the communist bloc
There was also heavy support for them from the local population and workers.
And of course the right wingers not only had "heavy foreign influence and support" on their side too (the whole country was established under heavy western influence and at its "benevolence"), but they also crushed them, undemocratically with the help of that foreign influence and support.
There was significant interest from foreign powers doing just that, look up Operation Coldstore and the history of communist insurgency in Singapore.