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During the 1991 August coup in Russia, Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" played on a loop on state TV as communists tried to oust the Soviet president.

From the blog of Grant Arthur Gochin at The Times of Israel

Jay Davis, Livermore

Contrary to what Vladimir wants us to think, communism does not work. For those who are too young to remember the original Soviet Union, their most promi...

Why has the PM ginned up this “too many rights and too few duties” bogey now? For seven years, he has enjoyed unquestioned power: neither parliament nor the judiciary have posed any serious hurdle to his imperious impulses.There is no opposition; no JNU; no critical media.

One of the key events which is often talked about in western (particularly American) histories of the Cold War is the rearmament of Germany. During the - Starté Butone for Antiwar.com Original

Интересные здания времён СССР, которые сохранились в Приамурье 23.07.2021 10:04 Источник фото: @sovet_echo Почти треть века назад исчез Советский Союз с его бесплатным жильём, дефицитом, настоящим молоком и авоськами. До сих пор ещё можно прикоснуться к той эпохе через кирп�...

2021-07-23T06:47:43+03:00 2021-07-23T06:23:00+03:00 2021 Россиянам посоветовали, как нужно действовать в случае утечки данных Технологии https://россиясегодня.рф Россиянам при обнаружении утечки своих персональных данных следует сменить пароли, начать использовать двухфакторную аутентификацию, а ...

Der faschistische Schatten aus der längsten Nacht der Operation Barbarossa spukt noch immer in Europa. Das ist unfassbar irritierend. Diese Woche jährt sich der Überfall der Nazis auf die Sowjetunion zum 8o. Mal. Was folgte, war eine lange Nacht des Grauens, in der der Zweite Weltkrieg eskalierte und zig Millionen Menschenleben auslöschte. Die Operation Barbarossa wurde am 22. Juni 1941 gestartet, wenige Stunden vor der Sommersonnenwende – dem längsten Tag des Jahres auf der Nordhalbkuge...

‘Comrades there’s no debate! Soviet Citizens will get in great shape. What is ours is in our power. Where’s our power? In this cocoa powder.’ Such were the lyrical themes stretching the talents of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky by the mid 1920s. He had gone enthusiastically into business as an advertising agent, producing posters with the artist Aleksandr Rodchenko. Their company, Reklam-Konstruktor (advertising constructor), would last only two years, and Lenin’s New Economic Policy, t...