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Today, the People’s Republik drips Marxist motifs. The bar’s shady red walls are decked with framed Soviet propaganda posters—many of which have been donated by customers. They’ve given other things...
From the outside, it might seem that the Center for Marxist Education has gone the way of the Soviet Union. The entrance at 550 Mass. Ave. in Central Square—right beside the Cambridge Business Center—is marked only by a sign and a black door with peeling numbers. The door is set back from the street in an entryway covered by old bumper stickers and graffiti that includes the opaque message, “AR YU REDI FOR DH REVOLUSION?” An issue of People’s Weekly World in the mailbox...
...nickname “the Kremlin on the Charles” and came under fire from Sen. Joseph McCarthy for the faculty’s alleged communist leanings. But the campus’ liberal sensibility reared its fur-hatted head again last year, when Mather House adopted a Soviet theme and wrapped itself in an iron curtain in the campus-wide House Wars...
...epilogue to Journey into the Whirlwind, her shattering memoir of life in the Soviet Gulag, Evgenia Ginzburg wrote: "Can such things just happen and be done with, unattended by retribution?" The prison camps in North Korea are the Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together...
Most of the former Soviet states have chosen their path to the future—establishing Western-style democracies or drifting toward authoritarianism. Ukraine is now standing at a pivotal moment in its history in which it can choose to honor the rule of law, a foundational notion of Western order, or descend into political chaos. Though we badly want to see Yushchenko become president of Ukraine, establishing the rule of law as the basis of Ukraine’s political system will be more important than defeating Moscow’s candidate this time around...