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Konchalovsky; written by Konchalovsky and Elena Kiseleva Dear Comrades, the Russian entry for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Academy Awards, addresses one of the most significant and least understood episodes in the history of the Soviet Union: the massacre of dozens of workers in Novocherkassk on June 2, 1962, on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Twenty-six people are believed to have been killed in the incident (other estimates go far higher), but the real number was never established and perhaps never...

New York City police attack striking Hunts Point warehouse workers Scores of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers attacked a picket line of striking Hunts Point Produce Market workers early Tuesday morning, arresting five workers. Video footage, which has spread rapidly on social media, shows the cops, equipped with riot gear, outnumbering pickets by two to one. The violent provocation comes as 1,400 workers entered the third day of their strike at the world’s largest produce wholesaler. The striking workers, who receive poverty-level wages of $18-$20 an hour, are demanding a modest w...