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Laughing in their faces

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Posted by    Monday, December 3, 2012 at 7:16pm

From Gabriella Hoffman, the daughter of Soviet immigrants, two gems.

If they could laugh in the face of Soviet Russia …

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“… they have food specifically made for cats in America? What a country!”

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Posted by    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 12:08pm

Having spent a fair amount of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s studying and traveling in the Soviet Union (where all goods were moved to market on roads paid for by the government, too), I really appreciate both the humor and substance of this post by Karoli, 34 glorious, American years:

In 1977,...

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The ignorance of the masses – Soviet flag at #OccupyPhiladelphia

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Posted by    Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9:00am

We’ve seen this before, at the celebration of Obama’s victory in 2008, where students unfurled the Soviet flag in celebration. I chalked that up to profound historical ignorance, much like the chic wearing of Che Guevara and Mao t-shirts.

The carrying of the Soviet flag at the Occupy Philadelphia protest, by contrast, more likely...

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“I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!”

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:41am

So e-mails reader and commenter KC_MRBB KC_MRBB, with a link to the video below, referring to my prior post The “Richest 5%” Are The New Kulaks from October 27, 2008.

Related: The Revolt of the Kulaks Has Begun

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    Babi Yar

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    Posted by    Monday, October 3, 2011 at 7:57pm

    Today marked the 70th commemoration of the Nazi massacre of 33,771 Jews in September 1941 at the Ukrainian ravine at Babi Yar.

    I visited the site in 1978, at which point a monument had been erected at the site.

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s 1961 poem, which was not officially published in the Soviet Union for...

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    Yelena Bonner

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    Posted by    Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:18am

    It is with sadness that I read of the passing of Yelena Bonner, the wife of Andrei Sakharov, at age 88 in Boston.  The story is at CIF Watch, Yelena Bonner – Courageous Jewish Leftist:

    I have read several obits for Yelena Bonner, who died in Boston on June 18th at age...

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    “Back in the USSR” Was Just a Song

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    Posted by    Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 11:28am


    “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
    Back in the USSR, yeah”

    It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring of truth to it:

    “I should add, of course,...
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    Boney M

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    Posted by    Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 8:38am

    That is a name I had not heard in decades.

    When I studied in the Soviet Union many of the East European students loved the group Boney M and were surprised that none of the Americans in our group had heard of it.  To them, Boney M was supposed to be one of the...

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    It Also Was Called The Soviet Union

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    Posted by    Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 4:19pm

    I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries.  I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted for foreigners without official approval.

    My assessment...

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    Maybe Anna Chapman Wasn’t Such A Joke After All

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    Posted by    Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 4:04pm

    When the story broke last June about the arrest of 10 Russian sleeper agents, none of whom seemed to be in a position to do any real damage, many people laughed at the supposed ineptitude...

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    Stuxnet Makes Jump From Computers To Humans

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    Posted by    Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 2:28pm

    The Stuxnet malware apparently was designed to damage or destroy industrial system controllers of the type used in Iran’s nuclear program.

    It is too early to assess what, if any, damage has taken place in Iran because of the secrecy of the Iranian regime.  Based on the delay of...

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    What Your Health Care Will Look Like

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    Posted by    Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 4:35pm

    I originally linked to this in the sidebar (via It Don’t Make Sense), but have promoted it front and center because if ever there were a reason to fear government, this creepy video of Chevy VOLT dancers and...

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    Left-Wing Epistemic Closure to Inconvenient History

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    Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 9:15am

    There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?:

    In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic...
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    An Army of One

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    Posted by    Monday, May 24, 2010 at 10:25am

    One of the perks of being a big time blogger (hah) is that sometimes people send me stuff for free. As in a free copy of Zev Chafets’ biography of Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One.

    Which now occupies a hallowed place on my bookshelf next to two of my favorite autobiographies...

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    Remember Katyn Forest

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    Posted by    Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 12:01am

    In 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia.

    The mass grave was discovered in 1943 by invading German troops, but the Soviet propaganda machine create the mythology that the massacre was committed by the Nazis:

    In late 1943, as the Red Army began to recapture...

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