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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
Russia to ban ‘child-free propaganda’
on organisations who are found guilty of spreading “child-free propaganda”. Russia’s population is currently about 144 ...
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A tech founder born in the Soviet Union compared metaverse hype to the communist propaganda he experienced as a child
A tech founder compared today's hype around the metaverse with Soviet propaganda he experienced as a child. Phil Libin, the founder of the note-taking app Evernote and the CEO of the ...
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Soviet Subversion, Disinformation and Propaganda: How the West Fought Against it
highlights eleven case studies in order to examine counter-disinformation and counter-propaganda tactics to explain Cold War strategies followed by the USSR as well as the Western response. The study ...
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The Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba Still Haunts Us
While the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to outdo each other in ... both in yield and in the propaganda victory that a weapon larger than the one used at Castle Bravo would have.
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Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...