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Russians Nostalgic for Soviet Era According to Poll
Poll respondents long for stability of Soviet times Soviet-era nostalgia still strong, 20 years on from AFP News Agency A study conducted by the Eastern Bank for Reconstruction and Development found that only 15% of Russian households think their quality of life is better compared with 15% in 2010, with over half of respondents from […]
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Gorbachev: “Treachery killed the USSR”
25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev discusses the betrayal that could have led to a bloody civil war Gorbachev: Treachery killed USSR – BBC News Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev blames “treachery” for the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991 in an interview with the BBC 25 […]
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Who Wins Between Ukraine and Russia? Chinese Defense Firms
VICE’s Ryan Faith has an interesting bit of speculation as to who will emerge in the struggle between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine – China and its defense manufacturing industry. During the Cold War, prior to the Sino-Soviet split of the 1970s, China and the then-Soviet Union were allies in the common cause of […]
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Documentary
The Turkmenbashi Cult of Personality in Turkmenistan
With a personality cult to rival that of Kim Jong-un’s in North Korea, Turkmenistan’s Turkmenbashi has built a comprehensive system of secular adulation centered on his life and his teachings as embodied in his various proclamations, speeches, and writings, most famous among which is the Ruhnama. Having elevated himself to the position of secular god […]
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Europe
Russia Pivots East As Relations with the West Hit 25-Year Low
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s, relations between the West and the Russian Federation, successor to the Soviet state, have improved when compared to their parlous condition during the era known as the Cold War. Recently, however, Russia under Vladimir Putin has shifted its stance in an eastward facing direction, […]
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Is North Korea’s State Ideology, Juche(주체), a Religion?
According to Adherents.com, which tracks membership numbers among the world’s various religions, the 10th largest religious group in the world is the entire state of North Korea itself – namely, the Juche (주체) ideology coined by Eternal President Kim Il-sung and propagated through the DPRK’s propaganda machine. The Juche movement is much more overtly religious […]
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The Return of Stalingrad
The Russian metropolis of Volgograd resumed its Soviet World War II-era name of Stalingrad on Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The name change will be accompanied by concerts, military parades, and attended by President Vladimir Putin. The city was initially named Stalingrad in 1925 after the Soviet leader […]
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Kim Jong-il on Display at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea
- January 24, 2013
- Asia
- Communism
- Communist
- communist traditions
- Dear Leader
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- DPRK
- East Asia
- embalmed
- Eternal President
- Kim Il-sung
- Kim Jong-il
- Korea
- Kumsusan
- Kumsusan Palace
- Lenin
- Mao
- Marxism
- Marxist
- North Korea
- philosopher
- preservation
- Pyongyang
- Soviet Union
- Tiananmen Square
In line with a communist tradition established after the death of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and influential Marxist philosopher, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will place Dear Leader Kim Jong-il’s embalmed figure on display alongside that of his father, Eternal President Kim Il-sung. It is unknown if the Kumsusan Palace […]
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