103 Years Since the October Revolution
We celebrate the event that launched a thousand struggles – the Great October Socialist Revolution, and remember its lessons for communists today.
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USSR
How the Soviets dominated the world of chess – The Queen’s Gambit
With the considerable amount of leisure time resulting from a universal eight-hour day (an anomaly for the era), a passion for mass activity, excellent facilities available at no cost, public transport and free access to services, in 6 of the 8 Summer Olympics they competed in, the Soviet Union was at the top of the medal count.
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What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare
The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?
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The European Union’s Campaign to Rewrite History
In order to undercut any potential resistance to the European Empire, it is engaging in the historical comparisons of the Socialist countries to Nazism.
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