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‘Dispatch Hitler to Hell’: 80 years since the Nazi invasion of the USSR
June 22, 2021Military and political “experts” in the West predicted Hitler would conquer the Soviet Union within days. Blinded by their capitalist class interests, they longed for socialism to fail. How wrong they were.
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Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history
December 23, 2020Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.
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The Siege of Leningrad: Shostakovich and the airbrushing of history
June 26, 2019The Siege of Leningrad was recorded not only in books, but also in music.
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“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’
May 9, 2019The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.
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Dissident voices in declining powers: Two exhibitions at the Wende Museum
March 14, 2019Viewers may have to set some of their biases outside the door and expect to be challenged by what they see at the Wende.
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