Section: Victims of Communism (USA)
June 1st, 2017
CHINA Activist Held in China’s Guangdong For Printing T-Shirts Bearing Guo Wengui QuoteRADIO FREE ASIA Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained a rights activist for selling T-shirts carrying a quotation from exiled billionaire property tycoon Guo Wengui. Dong Qi is currently being held in the Longgang...
May 31st, 2017
CHINA China police detain gay activists after Xian event canceledU.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT Police in China’s northwestern city of Xian briefly detained nine gay activists, saying the city did not welcome gay people, after they tried to organize a gay rights conference there, one of the activists told Reuters on Wednesday. The move came as...
May 30th, 2017
CHINA China’s Social Credit System: a big-data enabled approach to market regulation with broad implications for doing business in China Mirjam Meissner, MERCATOR INSTITUTE FOR CHINA STUDIES Under the catchphrase “Social Credit System” China is in the process of implementing a new and highly ambitious scheme to monitor, rate, and regulate...
Lenin’s High-Water Mark: Warsaw, 1920
On August 12, 1920, the fate of Poland hung by a thread. The Bolsheviks, victorious in Russia, advanced rapidly towards the heart of Europe, approaching the suburbs of Warsaw. This was the decisive moment in the Polish-Bolshevik War, a conflict that had begun some seventeen months earlier, when Polish and Red Army forces had clashed in their...
Date Night with Vladimir Putin
The Academy Award-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov once said, “Cinema is the most powerful weapon.” In Russia, it’s a weapon wielded to excise uncomfortable truths about its Soviet legacy in favor of unifying the Russian people under a shallow, state-manufactured conception of national greatness. Russia needs heroes—that’s true....
May 17th, 2017
CHINA China’s Silk Road Initiative Sows European Discomfort Mark Magnier and Chun Han Wong, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL China’s bid to mobilize dozens of countries and billions of dollars for its ambitious Silk Road infrastructure plan bumped into European dissent at a high-profile Beijing forum, underscoring difficulties in marshaling...
May 12th, 2017
CHINA Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Rally Displaced by Pro-Beijing Event, Organizers Say Mike Ives, THE NEW YORK TIMES Organizers of a pro-democracy rally held annually in July on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China said that they had been denied permission to use a downtown park, a move that threatens to raise tensions ahead of an...
Living Arrangements in the Workers’ Paradise
In a centrally planned socialist economy like the one that existed in the Soviet Union, the government determined every detail of the national economy. This also meant that it determined the details of its workers’ personal lives, including where they lived, what jobs they took up, and where they could move. The Soviet Union had extensive...
The Country Where the Government Owned Everything
When Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power over Russia in October 1917, they began almost immediately to nationalize the economy. This was part and parcel with their communist philosophy. Marx had laid out his expectations in the Communist Manifesto: “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from...
April 26th, 2017
CHINA China Convicts US Businesswoman of Spying Chun Han Wong and Charles Hutzler, WALL STREET JOURNAL A Chinese court convicted a long-detained American businesswoman of espionage and ordered her imprisoned and deported in a case seen as a barometer of US-China relations. After a half-day trial Tuesday, the court ordered Phan Phan-Gillis...
