It took courage to be a refusenik—just like it takes courage to be a proud Jew on campus today....
Russians don’t think of [Alexander] Pushkin as black or not black. He is a mythical creature of mysterious origin — the giver of language....
City-owned grocery stores "will buy and sell at wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and partner with local neighborhoods on products and sourcing."...
March 8 is a communist holiday, established by Vladimir Lenin in the Soviet Union. It rejects femininity but glorifies feminism as part of the Marxist obsession with eradicating traditional values related to marriage and family....
"Soviet propaganda painted Zionism as a racist, fascist, Nazi, settler-colonial, imperialist ideology that opposed everything that socialism and communism stood for."...
Once they consolidated power, Bolsheviks weren’t particularly interested in protecting ordinary people from the criminal element....
What do a Cold War-era conspiracy theory, a modern-day political operation involving a hoax concerning domestic elections, and a global media influence campaign concerning the death of a Saudi operative have in common?...
"Recently discovered footage from 1988 reveals a shirtless Bernie Sanders with his wife, Jane, on their honeymoon in the USSR, drunkenly signing “This Land Is Your Land” with a group of presumed Soviets."
The New York Times recently published an Op-Ed with an eye-popping claim: for all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.
This was not the first piece published by the New York Times exploring the Alleged glories of socialism as they relate to women. In August, anthropologist Kristen R. Ghodsee attempted to answer the greatest question of the 20th century, in Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism (oh — you weren’t wondering that?).
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years and executive president for nearly two, has stepped down from office. He announced his resignation in a 10 minute speech, broadcast live on television, as the Soviet Union passed into history.
Boney M
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 leading bands in the U.S.
