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Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Elegy for a Disappearing Empire: was the US Domination of Europe a Good Thing?

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  An interpretation of Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes, Celts who lived in Britain at the time of the Roman invasion (Image by Kate Spitz...
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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Turning the West into a new Soviet Union -2: the Demise of Restaurants

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  Restaurants were never a feature of the old Soviet Union, discouraged because of their bourgeois nature. Earlier on, though, Russia had re...
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

How we Became What we Despised. Turning the West into a New Soviet Union

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  For everything that happens, there is a reason for it to happen. Even for turning the former Free World into something that looks very muc...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Lessons from the USSR Crisis - What brought down the second largest empire of modern times?

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  The collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, was seen in the West as a demonstration of the superiority of the Western economical and politi...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Propaganda: the Doom of the Western Empire

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This painting by Konstantin Vasiliev (1942-1976) celebrates the great patriotic war of 1941-1945 (Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́). It is a g...
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