Nicaragua is not really a communist country in the truest sense of the word. It is a republic in which the Communist party is one of many parties. The way in which the Sandinistas won is that the other parties failed to achieve the legitimate aspirations of the people for a time. However, the time will come when the Sandinistas will lose the election and they will cede power to whoever is the next winner. I say tht because they have done that before. If you are interested in what happens in a real communist country let's take a look at what happened in Hungary and with Cardinal Mindszenty;
On 15 September 1945, he was appointed Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom (the seat of the head of the Catholic Church in Hungary). On 21 February 1946, Archbishop Mindszenty was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano Rotondo by Pope Pius XII, who told him, "Among these thirty-two you will be the first to suffer the martyrdom symbolized by this red color."[7]
To the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Mindszenty was regarded as the archetypal figure of "clerical reaction". He continued to use the traditional title of prince-primate (hercegprímás) even after the use of noble and royal titles were entirely outlawed by the 1946 parliament. The Party accused him of having "aristocratic attitudes" and attacked his demands for compensation following the State seizure of Church-owned farmlands during the Party's campaign to abolish private farm ownership.[8] Since the main source of income for the Church was their agricultural lands, arbitrary and uncompensated confiscations by the communist government left many Church-run institutions destitute.[9]
Cardinal Mindszenty believed and preached that "The Church asks for no secular protection; it seeks shelter under the protection of God alone".[10] For this reason, he fought fiercely against Party attempts to seize parochial schools and force them to teach Marxist-Leninism.
In 1948, religious orders were banned by the government. Soon after, in an interview with American Marxist reporter George Seldes, Hungarian Premier Matyas Rakosi accused both the Cardinal and the Roman Catholic Church of being "a reactionary force in our country, supporting the monarchy and later the Fascist dictatorship of Admiral Horthy" and of also being, "the largest landowner in Hungary." This, according to Rakosi, was the only reason for Cardinal Mindszenty's opposition to the Party's policy of land confiscation.[11]
On 26 December 1948, Cardinal Mindszenty was arrested and accused of treason, conspiracy, and other offences against the new People's Republic of Hungary. Shortly before his arrest, he wrote a note to the effect that he had not been involved in any conspiracy, and any confession he might make would be the result of duress. While he was imprisoned by the communist government, Mindszenty was repeatedly hit with rubber truncheons and subjected to other forms of torture until he agreed to "confess".[9][12]
Among other things, Cardinal Mindszenty "admitted" that he had orchestrated the theft of the Crown of Saint Stephen for the sole purpose of crowning Crown Prince Otto von Hapsburg as King of Hungary. He "confessed" that he had schemed to overthrow the Party and reestablish Capitalism, that he had planned a Third World War, and that, once this war had been won by the Americans, that he himself would have assumed supreme political power.[13]
Almost alone among the Western news media, Marxist reporter George Seldes took the allegations of the Hungarian State at face value and urged his readers to do the same. Dismissing all evidence to the contrary, Seldes would spend the remainder of his long life accusing Cardinal Mindszenty of being a nαzι collaborator, a h0Ɩ0cαųst perpetrator, and a virulent αnтι-ѕємιтє.[14]
In his 1987 memoirs, Seldes wrote, "In 1948 the entire American section of the resident foreign press corps in Hungary implored me to report the facts about Cardinal Mindszenty's collaboration with the nαzιs, his part in the deportation of the Jєωιѕн population to Hitler's death camps, and also to expose the scores of fraudulent news items coming from outside Hungary, from Vienna, London, Prague, and Rome especially, alleging drugging and torturing of the Cardinal."[15]
On 3 February 1949, Cardinal Mindzenty's show trial began. Showing visible signs of having been tortured, the Cardinal walked into the court and "confessed" to all charges. As he followed the trial, a weeping Pope Pius XII told Sister Pascalina Lehnert, "My words have come true and all I can do is pray; I cannot help him any other way."[16]
On 8 February, Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason and espionage. The government released a book Docuмents on the Mindszenty Case containing his confession.
On 12 February 1949, Pope Pius XII announced the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Mindszenty.
On 20 February 1949, the Pope addressed a series of questions to "an enormous crowd which had gathered in St. Peter's Square" to protest the Cardinal's show trial and conviction. He asked, "Do you want a Church that remains silent when She should speak; that diminishes the law of God where she is called to proclaim it loudly, wanting to accommodate it to the will of man? Do you want a Church that departs from the unshakable foundations upon which Christ founded Her, taking the easy way of adapting Herself to the opinion of the day; a Church that is a prey to current trends; a Church that does not condemn the suppression of conscience and does not stand up for the just liberty of the people; a Church that locks Herself up within the four walls of Her temple in unseemly sycophancy, forgetting the divine mission received from Christ: 'Go out the crossroads and preach the people'? Beloved sons and daughters! Spiritual heirs of numberless confessors and martyrs! Is this the Church you venerate and love? Would you recognize in such a Church the features of your Mother? Would you be able to imagine a Successor of St. Peter submitting to such demands?"[16]
According to Sister Pascalina, who witnessed the rally, "In reply to the Holy Father came a single cry like thunder still ringing in our ears: 'No!'"[16]
In a subsequent apostolic letter, Acerrimo Moerore, the Pope publicly condemned the Cardinal's conviction and described his tortures.
On 30 October 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Mindszenty was released from prison. He returned to Budapest the next day. On 2 November, he praised the insurgents. The following day, he made a radio broadcast in favour of recent anti-communist developments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Mindszenty