Soviet Union
Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism
April 15, 2021From 1978 to 1992, Afghanistan made great strides in education, health care, economic development, and women's liberation - despite intense fighting with U.S.-backed fundamentalist militia forces.
Read more‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
Read moreTurkey accused of shipping jihadist mercenaries into Azerbaijan-Armenia war
October 29, 2020Affiliated to al-Qaida, fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party seek to establish a caliphate called East Turkestan to replace China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Now, Turkey has apparently shipped them into the middle of the Armenia-Azerbaijan war.
Read moreBelarus overthrow campaign aims to destroy last traces of Soviet socialism
September 3, 2020After 1991, Belarus took a path that was perhaps the closest to the old economic system of the Soviet Union. This made the nation a bedrock of stability while the other former Soviet states were convulsed...
Read moreSurvivor of Nazis’ Leningrad siege now helps needy during pandemic
May 7, 202080-year-old Galina Yakovleva drives a white minivan every day through the city on a one-woman charitable mission for the elderly and needy families.
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