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Stalin’s Rope Roads

Stalin’s Rope Roads

"People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea as a kind of second heaven" - John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal ...
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My Unusual Family Holiday To East Berlin (Easter 1986)

My Unusual Family Holiday To East Berlin (Easter 1986)

While East Germany wasn't the most obvious choice of holiday destination for most families in the 1980s, my parents were journalists, so that was our excuse. ...
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Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

“I saw her as a righteous woman, a sister, an elder who didn’t crack” ...
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Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

In 1947 the Catechetical Guild Educational Society in St. Paul, Minnesota put out this warning ...
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The Last Days of Soviet Moscow (1986 – 87)

The Last Days of Soviet Moscow (1986 – 87)

Photos by Roger George Clark In the mid 1980s the English photographer Roger George Clark ...
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Brutal Soviet Antireligious Propaganda

Brutal Soviet Antireligious Propaganda

  The Soviet Union aimed to eliminate religion. In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviets attacked every ...
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Soviet Style ’86: Russian Fashion from the Year of Chernobyl

Soviet Style ’86: Russian Fashion from the Year of Chernobyl

From the year of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, the Chernobyl disaster of ...
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USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

We're all familiar with the "When Animals Attack" trope of the vintage action magazine.  However, ...
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Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet  (1930s)

Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet (1930s)

Pierre Jamet (May 24, 1910, Saint-Quentin, France - 17 August,2000, Belle Île, France) was a singer ...
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Ayn Rand, The Red Scare And It’s A Wonderful Life As Communist Propaganda

Ayn Rand, The Red Scare And It’s A Wonderful Life As Communist Propaganda

  Frank Capra's 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life, a mainstay of the holiday season in the United ...
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When China Wiped Out the Common Sparrow And Slit Its Own Throat (1958)

When China Wiped Out the Common Sparrow And Slit Its Own Throat (1958)

When China's Communist Party killed 30m people in a botched plan ...
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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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