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Putin’s Reactionary Mafia-State hands out Russian Passports to French Tax Evaders
January 7, 2013
by Frank W. Strauch After a controversy over a new tax bracket which French president François Hollande recently tried (and failed) to implement, a number of the republic’s top millionaires expressed the common sentiment of those with numerous off-shore bank accounts by threatening to leave France if the tax were to go into effect. It […]
The Soviet Approach to Religion
September 14, 2012
Under the Soviet constitution, you were free to believe whatever crazy nonsense you wanted to, but the moment you tried to make somebody else believe in your nonsense, you had crossed the line. You were impinging upon the rights of others to be free of superstition. We could learn a great deal from their approach […]
The Myth of the Communist Witch Hunt: McCarthyism and the so-called End of History
May 16, 2012
by Patrick M. Dixon It has become a point of consensus in American historical understanding that the efforts of conservatives to rid the country of communists in the early Cold War were part of an irrational crusade against an imagined enemy. “Reds under the bed” are jovially referred to. The chief protagonist and poster child […]
Communists win 20% in recent Russian elections
December 25, 2011
by Bruno Fournier Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the official dissolution of the Soviet Union. A few weeks ago, Russian parliamentary elections delivered approximately twenty percent of the vote to the Russian Communist Party. This is not some exercise in numerology. There is nothing magical about the number 20. And yet, somehow, it all […]
February 20, 2013
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