Section: Victims of Communism (USA)
December 30th, 2016
CHINA Top Brass in China’s Ruling Communist Party Pledge Their Loyalty to Xi Jinping Jun Mai, BUSINESS INSIDER The ruling Communist Party’s two dozen top brass made a face-to-face pledge of political loyalty to Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, one month into the official preparations for a major power transition next year. In a...
December 29th, 2016
CHINA Rights Website Founder Formally Arrested for Subversion in China’s HubeiRADIO FREE ASIA Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have formally arrested Liu Feiyue, the founder of the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch website, on subversion charges, fellow activists and relatives told RFA on Wednesday. Liu was detained on...
December 27th, 2016
CHINA Christians Arrested by Communist Regime, Accused of Belonging to “Evil Cults” Stoyan Zaimov, CHRISTIAN POST Several Christians have been arrested in China’s southwestern Yunnan province and accused of belonging to “evil cults,” according to persecution watchdog group China Aid. The ruling Communist Party has been engaged in a...
Was the Fall of the USSR a Surprise?
On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which for nearly 70 years dominated the geopolitical landscape, smothered Eastern Europe and Eurasia within its dead embrace, and caused the deaths of around 30 million of its own people, dissolved. The collapse of...
December 23rd, 2016
CHINA Chinese Propaganda Video Warns of West’s “Devilish Claws” Chris Buckley, THE NEW YORK TIMES The communist party says such uprisings like the “color revolution” are a template of Western plans for China. It is a longstanding theme that has gained greater official credence under Communist Leader Xi Jinping. That perspective has threaded...
December 22nd, 2016
CHINA China Extends Its Clampdown on Foreign Nonprofits Ken Bredemeier, VOICE OF AMERICA Beijing has extended its clampdown on the activities of 7,000 international nonprofit groups in China, its latest effort aimed at curbing foreign influences in the country. Many of the estimated 200 permitted activities are non-controversial, such as work in...
December 19th, 2016
CHINA Facing a Transition of Power, China’s Xi Jinping is More Desperate Than Ever to Control Young Minds Echo Huang, QUARTZ Facing a transition of power, the most influential Communist Party leader in recent history is showing signs he’s reluctant to let go of the reigns, working furiously to consolidate power ahead of the 19th Party...
December 15th, 2016
CHINA Is the US Losing East Asia to China? Bob Savic, THE DIPLOMAT The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency is continuing to send shockwaves in the corridors of power across East Asia. The trend in emerging rifts between a number of formerly US-centric East Asian states and the Obama administration had been visible, under the radar, for...
December 13th, 2016
ALBANIA UN Body Urges Albania to Identify Communist VictimsBALKAN INSIGHT Almost 26 years after the fall of communism in Albania, those persecuted by the country’s Stalinist regime have little hope that the state will ever identify the remains of around 6,000 people who were executed or died in regime camps and prisons. Agim Musta, a...
December 12th, 2016
CHINA China Puts Dissidents Under House Arrest for Human Rights DayRADIO FREE ASIA China on Friday detained key dissidents, placing some under house arrest amid growing calls for a tougher US stance on Beijing’s rights record ahead of World Human Rights Day. As rights activists and former prisoners of conscience gave testimony to...
