Topic: USSR

When the people stop believing the government and the media
When the people stop believing the government and the media January 30, 2022 James Lewis Arguably the USSR crumbled because everybody was lying to everybody else, so that nothing could be believed, including (especially) economic transactions. We are entering that stage of disbelief and decline now.
Coronavirus panic as an immersive history lesson on life in the USSR
Coronavirus panic as an immersive history lesson on life in the USSR April 2, 2020 A. Welderson The month of April is designed to teach how everyday life was in the old Soviet Union. 
Oleg Atbashian's <em>Hotel USSR</em>
Oleg Atbashian's Hotel USSR December 26, 2018 Clarice Feldman Oleg Atbashian, creator of the fabulous satire site The Peoples Cube.com, has written an illustrated autobiographical book about his life in the USSR, before he was able to immigrate to the U.S.
Eighties America Through the Eyes of KGB Deep Cover Agents: <em>The Americans</em>
Eighties America Through the Eyes of KGB Deep Cover Agents: The Americans May 31, 2016 George W. Ford The FX Cable Network series seen on Wednesdays explores deep waters through the eyes of Soviet agents posing as a normal, middle class American couple.
Bernie Sanders’s 1963 stay at a Stalinist kibbutz
Bernie Sanders’s 1963 stay at a Stalinist kibbutz February 5, 2016 Thomas Lifson Part of the worldwide communist organizational support system.
Vladimir Putin Caesar and Our Great Geo-political Turning Point
Vladimir Putin Caesar and Our Great Geo-political Turning Point April 25, 2014 Selwyn Duke The USSR used to jockey for world influence with us; whereas before they had to market Marxism, however, now they can peddle purity. Standing against decadent Western secular-imperialism can win Russia many friends
Inside Vladimir Putin&#039;s Skull
Inside Vladimir Putin's Skull April 9, 2014 Kim Zigfeld How did it go the last time we let a barbarian have his way with Europe?
Dishonor at Sochi
Dishonor at Sochi February 3, 2014 Kim Zigfeld The whole point of Putin's spending over $50 billion on the Sochi games is to make Russia look good. But what's actually happened is the exact opposite.
Forward
Forward January 19, 2014 Aleksey Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
Dangerous Times: The New York Times Goes the Full Pravda
Dangerous Times: The New York Times Goes the Full Pravda January 4, 2014 James Lewis When "all the news that's fit to print" turns into Moscow Pravda, the only way to read it is like the Pravda of old.
Tom Clancy Departs
Tom Clancy Departs October 4, 2013 Robert Morrison The great thriller writer has cast off for broader seas.
The Moscow Club and Armand Hammer
The Moscow Club and Armand Hammer December 29, 2012 Elise Cooper The best thrillers are the ones based on facts. Finder seemed to have a crystal ball, predicting how the hardliner regime would eventually resume power at a time when many people thought the "bad-guys" were defeated.