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Have the right to exist as a separate nation. this was a cold and calculated speech in which he past khrushchev for giving in to nationalism. its the speech that is reminisce sent as delivered on the eve of world war ii before hitler innovated world war ii. he said -- >> putin has long said the soviet collapse is the worth geo political collapse of the 20th century. he said ukraine should have never been separated from russia during the soviet union and he said theyre taking back the land that i...

All, to create a new slavic union between russia, belarus, and ukraine, and possibly move further westward and create a sphere of influence in central and eastern europe. he he really wants to reverse the results of the soviet collapse, to revisit the settlement that was agreed upon, um, in 1991. thats his ultimate aim. of course, its going much more difficult for him in ukraine than he thought. but he has broader ambitions than just, quote/unquote, swallowing ukraine. >> and to both of you, let...

While Russia batters Ukraine, officials in China have been meeting to study a Communist Party-produced documentary that extols President Vladimir Putin of Russia as a hero.

Bristling against the West, China rallies domestic sympathy for Russia

From the blog of Jeffrey Herf at The Times of Israel

When the disciples failed to cast out a particularly difficult demon, Jesus responded, that, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”

No longer allies in the war against the Axis states, the “democratic” capitalist countries turned on the USSR and formed a global bloc of all the imperialist powers to confront the rising tide of socialist revolution

Mariana Budjeryn’s profile on The Conversation

This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to chan

The way the soviet union did? >> the dying gasp of the soviet system. >> always in the back of his mind is the subject of the soviet collapse. why did it happen? >> for xi the fall of the soviet union became an obsession. >> xi jinping often talks about the fall of the soviet union as a lesson for china. >> what accounted for it? what were the stresses. >> why did soviet union collapse? >> xis answer? dont try to be too american. >> even though china has emulated america, china is still after al...