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when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin orchestrated efforts to punish and kill an estimated 1 million people suspected of harboring anti-Soviet sentiments. Stalin had banned abstract art years earlier, in ...
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"The German invaders… are usually called ‘fascists’. The Hitlerites… consider this wrong and stubbornly continue to call themselves ‘national socialists’… they want to assure us that the party of ...
The word choices of Russian governors were part of a major study of when and how flattery is used in authoritarian regimes.
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Having helped win the Cold War, the neocons should have declared victory and retired. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they ...
In a bloody bid to consolidate his power and eliminate anyone he considered insufficiently loyal to himself, Joseph Stalin, ...