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Vladimir Putin Fury: Russia Warned Diplomats to Evacuate Kyiv Ahead of Threatened 'Nuclear-Strength' Strike

Vladimir Putin threatens a missile strike on Kyiv if Ukrainian drones disrupt Moscow's Victory Day parade, highlighting escalating tensions and showcasing Russia's new hypersonic missile system.

International Business Times UK

V&A Museum deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Chinese censors

Chinese printers objected to a map of China and an image of Lenin which fell foul of Beijing’s censorship body

Evening Standard

“Oh God, This Person’s An Idiot”: 80 Moments When People Realized A Person Was Dumb

The Irish and the Scots refer to them as "eejits." In "Tropic Thunder," Kirk Lazarus called them morons. Imbeciles. In the eyes of the people who shared these stories, they are simply "idiots," or people who did or said things that made others seriously question their intellect. Some of them…

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Americans disapprove of Trump’s foreign policy. His escapades are likely to cost him

History tells us what happens when American presidents focus on foreign policy and neglect domestic economic policy

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Ex-CIA agent Aldrich Ames convicted of spying for Soviet Union dies in prison, US officials say

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of Russians who were spying for the United States.

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Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever

A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century

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GOP Lawmaker Berated After Urging Users to 'Reject Marx' in Support of Privatizing Public Lands: 'So Roosevelt Was a Marxist?'

A Republican lawmaker is facing backlash after urging users to "reject Marx" as he proposes privatization of some public lands as part of the GOP spending bill.

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Why is Stalin back in the Moscow metro?

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected in central Moscow since Stalin’s death in 1953 and marks a disturbing new stage in…

The Conversation

Central Asia’s largest Lenin statue taken down to be replaced by flagpole

Officials said that the issue ‘should not be politicized’

The Independent UK

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

The Conversation

Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia

Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war

The Guardian - UK

Sean McMeekin: Don't Whitewash the History of Communism

Historian Sean McMeekin dissects how communism has enduring and resurgent appeal in the West despite its history of violence and economic disaster.

Reason

Welcome to Babel: new documentary charts the creation of painter Jiawei Shen’s three-storey magnum opus

When Jiawei Shen first came to Australia, he bought a copy of that great western ideological text, the Bible. The doctrine that had shaped his life until then had come from the writings of the great Marxist thinkers – Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and of course, Mao Zedong.

The Conversation

Behind enemy lines with Ukraine’s troops in Russia

On the main road to Russia, the combat vehicles – some of them British – trundle forward. In the Russian town of Sudzha, Ukrainian troops dig in and prepare for a counterattack. Askold Krushelnycky reports from Kursk

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Ukraine destroys key bridge as troops leave ‘trail of destruction’ in Russia incursion

Kyiv destroys key bridge on Seym river in bid to protect gains inside Russia

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Ukrainian Forces Advance Into Russian Territory, Capturing Strategic Town

Ukrainian forces cross into Russia, seize Sudzha, face resistance, evacuate civilians, capture troops. Uncertain outcome of Kursk operation in ongoing conf...

The Independent UK

Florida attorney pleads guilty to trying to detonate explosives near Chinese embassy in Washington

A Florida attorney has pleaded guilty to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D

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The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers review – why capitalism can’t save the planet

A clear-eyed look at the economics of energy, and why state power, not free enterprise, is the solution to the climate crisis

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In Finland, the ‘existential threat’ of Russia looms – and US rescue is far from certain

As Finns elect a new president in the shadow of Putin’s hostility and a possible Trump return, all eyes are on national security, says author and commentator John Kampfner

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What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Accusations abound after Russian military plane carrying Ukrainian PoWs crashes; Lenin 100 years dead but a thorn in Putin’s side

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Behind Andhra anganwadi anger, funding gaps, unfulfilled promises, staff woes

Beneath a fading portrait of Vladimir Lenin, on Sunday, over a thousand anganwadi workers in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada went on strike against the government’s unwillingness to increase salaries. Behind the portrait, 15 women lay down on the dais, among whom 13 had been fasting for five days continuously. Two among…

International Business Times

Russians Gather To Mark 100 Years Since Lenin's Death

Dozens of Russian communists gathered in Red Square on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's death, in one of the few official events commemorating the Soviet founder.

Reason

Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer

On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors.

The Guardian - UK

‘Angel or antichrist’: Russia grapples with Lenin’s legacy 100 years after death

Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

International Business Times

100 Years After His Death, Russians Shrug At Lenin's Legacy

For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past.

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