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Sometimes, it's really surprising that the U.S. and Soviet Union did not actually go to war. This story about Soviet paranoia in the face of Reagan's increasing aggressiveness is quite alarming really. A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in...

Soviet Housing Foundations

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On November 6, 2014
Leave it to the Soviets to have done the worst possible thing in any given situation: After the war, with Brest's Jewish community devastated, the Communists set about getting rid of the remnants of Jewish culture in the town. In 1959 they dismantled the Jewish...

Shooting Range

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On March 29, 2014

Bspencer's post about animated films reminded me of the great and utterly bizarre Vladimir Tarasov 1979 animated film Shooting Range. Part of the superb Animated Soviet Propaganda DVD set, Tarasov's.

The Magnificent Actor

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On August 22, 2013
Yesterday was Trotsky Icepick Day and to commemorate it, The New Republic reprinted Edmund Wilson's 1933 article on him. Good stuff. It also helped me understand why Trotsky would agree to testify before HUAC.
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