anti-communism
Today in history: Half a million Communists massacred in Indonesia
October 20, 2015Fifty years ago, the massacre of more than 500,000 people in an anti-communist purge led to the elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party as a political force.
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Today in history: Musician/activist Leonard Bernstein is born
August 25, 2015Bernstein became the most prominent American-born conductor and a supremely talented musician, educator and composer.
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Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102
June 24, 2015Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s final day: June 19th, 1953
June 19, 2015At the height of the Cold War anti-communist hysteria, the lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were extinguished. On the anniversary of their executions, their granddaughter has a message.
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Today in labor history: Senate condems ultra right Joe McCarthy
December 2, 2014McCarthyism describes the action Joseph McCarthy took in attacking political opponents: anyone who supported civil rights, labor and other progressive causes.
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