The Guardian • Soviet Union
Issue #2158
Hiroshima, Nagasaki – NEVER AGAIN?
For 80 years, the Hibakusha (survivors) of the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been warning the world — “never again.” Never...
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Issue #2018
The reason why African countries are keen to work with Russia
“In 1917, new forces came to power in Russia – the Bolsheviks. I don’t know how you feel about them, whether you like them or...
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Issue #2061
Tereshkova first woman in space
On 16th June 1963, at the age of 26, Valentina V Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space, a major Soviet engineering and...
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Issue #2032
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years
Sixty years ago during the Cold War the world came close to a nuclear war between the two superpowers of the day, the Soviet Union...
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Issue #2022
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: socialist construction 1921-1941
This is part two of a series on the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was a founding republic of the Soviet Union (founded in 1922)....
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Issue #2142
Israel’s policy: fascist genocide
An address by Vinnie Molina, president of the Communist Party of Australia, to the 2025 International Anti-Fascist Forum Distinguished delegates, I would like to begin...
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Issue #2108
NATO Summit beats the drums of war
The 75th anniversary of NATO has concluded. At its recent Summit, Ukraine was top of the agenda, and it is clear that its proxy war...
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Issue #2098
Socialism through chess: the USSR, Cuba and the politics of Chess
Chess is a game of intellect, discipline, and strategic thinking. It’s is an equaliser in which a peasant, once taught, can play as well as...
Read moreMcCarthyism on the rise in Australian universities
In Australia’s latest self-sabotaging attack on China, the Morrison government has released a proposal that targets students and academics at Australian universities
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Issue #2111
New arms race in Europe
The signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union, in 1988, was a break in Cold War...
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Issue #2095
LPRP and Laos Development
In 2016, the Laos People’s Revolutionary Party formalised Kaysone Phomvihane Thought at their 10th Congress. Kaysone Phomvihane was Laotian leader from 1975 till his death...
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Issue #2144
Battleship Potemkin at 100
This year marks the centenary of one of the greatest films of the 20th century, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin. This great Soviet silent film influenced...
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Issue #2006
Never forget the victory of the Soviet Union
On 9th May, 1945, Hitler’s fascism was finally crushed amongst the rubble of Berlin and the “thousand-year Reich” came to a mercifully premature end. The...
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Issue #2201
Fear Before the Fall. Horror films in the late Soviet Union
Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union by Alexander Herbert (2023) is a fascinating study of how Soviet filmmakers channelled societal...
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Issue #2134
Remembering the Soviet victims of Auschwitz and other death camps
Eighty years ago Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and labour camps. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum website gives a history of Poles and Jews killed at...
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Issue #2132
PEACE NOTES
The United States is one of the world’s most prolific state sponsors of terrorism. It’s time to remember all the times the USA has sponsored...
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Issue #2191
20th Century socialism: a step forwards
While the Soviet Union eventually ossified and liquidated itself, recall that its Marxist-Leninist style of governance had already impacted countries from Africa to Latin America...
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Issue #2210
120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s contribution to Soviet culture
This year marks the 120th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s birth on 25 September 1906 in St Petersburg (later Leningrad). He made an enormous contribution to...
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Issue #2121
Lenin’s Nature Reserves – a great Soviet achievement
The Soviet Union was a cradle of environmentalism, a global pioneer in nature conservation. Two days after taking power in the October 1917 Revolution Lenin’s...
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Issue #2104
DINGO
This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Albania 1949-53: US and Britain tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist government and install one...
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Issue #2147
NATO’s deathly embrace
As Australian arms manufacturers supply weapons to the fascist regimes in Israel and Ukraine the Albanese government is moving to bring Australia into the deathly...
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Issue #2146
A great democratic rights victory
The defeat of the attempts of the Menzies government to outlaw the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in 1950 must rank as one of the...
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