Tag Archives : Communism

If you were wondering why everyone had to come in different shapes and sizes, you may not be the only one. A certain Mr. Hans Hemmert threw a party in which he requested all his guests to wear shoe extenders that would turn them all 6 feet and 7 inches tall, or 2 meters tall. While I am not sure what made him arrive at this idea, it sure seems like [...]

The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from [...]

In Russia, domestic economic health is not synonymous with national power. The country has always had a dysfunctional economy. ‘By contrast, its military power has always been disproportionately strong.’ The Russian security machinery devoted a bigger chunk of its economy to military power. The Russian government has been able to do this ‘Moscow [...]

Widespread celebrations, concerts and memorials across Germany will mark the commemoration day for the fall of the Berlin Wall, that pulled down some 20 years ago. The communism infected citizens of East Germany poured in to the U.S supported West Germany on that fateful night of November 9th, 1989, when the wall dividing the two Germany’s came [...]

In Reagan’s March 8, 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, he refereed to the U.S.S.R as the ‘evil empire.’ He castigated the nuclear power ambitions of the Soviet Union. He also justified the NATO deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe as response to the Soviet deployment of its [...]

Many Americans believed that the US was fighting a war that the Vietnamese people did not want to be fought for them. To say that the US military participation in Vietnam was not popular in the US is an understatement. Many critics felt that what was going on was a civil war between north and south Vietnam, and that the US was poking its nose into [...]

Cuba was once a rich place, attracting bohemians in the likes of Ernest Hemingway even. Its beaches were legendary. Its taste for the good life was almost proverbial. It was full of creativity and romance. 50 years after the revolution and the place is an anachronism where elegant structures of old mix with the dire reality of destitution. Gone are [...]