Jimmy Carter once told Americans that they needed “to get over their inordinate fear of communism.” Like most leftist politicians, Carter saw communism as a matter of good intentions gone awry. The collectivist ideals of Marxism were not bad per se, but communist leaders had gone too far in implementing them. Communism continues to enjoy […]
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Maximilien Robespierre attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris when he was eleven years old. He apparently was “a model student” and excelled in his scholastic studies, particularly Latin. His fellow classmates referred to him as “The Roman,” because of his excellent pronunciation of Latin words and phrases. In 1775, he was chosen to “deliver
Stalin, Mao, Communism and their 21st-Century Aftermath in Russia and China written by Dr. Miguel A. Faria is a historical and literary masterpiece! It has a wealth of knowledge within its pages. It is a beautiful book with historical photos, charts, a detailed index as well as notes on each chapter. Dr. Faria shares his knowledge
In my frequent re-examinations of the epic volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, I came across some psychosocial observations noted by the illustrious Nobel Prize-winning author and political philosopher. In Volumes III and IV, I found something about the nature of common thieves in the former USSR, those supposedly “in freedom” (e.g., in the
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Part VI is a wrap-up, which examines current issues in modern Russia and China. In this section, we see how Communism still influences Russian and Chinese thinking and policy. China is still brutally communist, but not in the same way it was when Mao ruled. Since Mao it has undergone some progressive changes. We
Part V of Dr. Faria’s book discusses espionage by the KGB and CIA during the Cold War. Dr. Faria starts by listing four seminal books essential for students of Cold War espionage. He proceeds to summarize the most important spies with examples, such as Soviet espionage student Kaarlo Tuomi dialoguing with his instructor Aleksei
