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Chinese science fiction is influenced by SF from Japan... and the USSR
Tōkyō :: Japan | 12 days ago
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We tend to think of science fiction authors outside of Europe and the United States primarily being influenced by English-language authors like Arthur C...And that's true but they're also influenced by science fiction from other non-Western countries.
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America's secret Cold War weapons: Cables reveals Washington wanted to unleash Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor on the USSR to defeat Communism
Moscow :: Russia | 1 month ago
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9 April 2013 Music icons Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor could have helped rock the foundations of Communism, according to a Cold War US government memo. The artists were named in a U.S. government dream list of stars who could have won
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Happy Birthday, Paul Robeson
Moscow :: Russia | 1 month ago
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For me, the mere mention of Robeson's name brings to mind a summer Saturday way back in 1949. On the same block as my apartment building in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, was a two-story structure almost under the elevated tracks of the Q train...On that
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Thatcher and the Soviet Union: The Iron Lady who helped bring down the ‘Evil Empire'
Moscow :: Russia | 1 month ago
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The Iron Lady who helped bring down the Evil Empire' It was a Soviet journalist who coined the moniker the Iron Lady for Margaret Thatcher. Intended as an insult, by the time she left office, for Russians it became a term of affection, or at the very
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Russia for the Russians – a putative policy
Moscow :: Russia | 1 month ago
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There have been tensions between native Russians and ethnic minorities since the Tartar Yoke of the 13th century. Successive rulers either tried to keep an uneasy peace or fanned the flames of division. Federica Prina discusses the Russian Government'
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Where's Jamaica's Gorbachev?
Kingston :: Jamaica | 1 month ago
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Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, while countering the superpower status of the United States (US). During the Cold War, the two superpowers attempted to divide the world into one camp or another...Germany were all natural outcomes
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Liberalism: A Basic Primer—Or, Why Leftism is Failure Incarnate
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 2 months ago
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The Struggle of the Left to Rationalize its Positions is an Intolerable Sisyphean Burden"--David Mamet Liberalism: A Basic PrimerOr, Why Leftism is Failure Incarnate Having covered the origins of leftism in the initial article in this two-part series,
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No room for hiding
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
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Pensioner Anna Vasilyeva lives in a two roomed flat in Novye Cheryomushki, in the south western part of Moscow...In January this year, she asked her lodger not to invite friends to stay at weekends. When the girl's mother came to visit, she asked
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Ice Hockey legend Valery Kharlamov remembered in Moscow exhibition match
Sapporo :: Japan | 3 months ago
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Moscow commemorated what could have been the 65th birthday of late ice hockey star Valery Kharlamov, who tragically died at the age of 33. RT recalls the brightest moments of the player's career, which inspired fans worldwide. A special exhibition
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It's Not Easy Being Red and Green
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 months ago
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It took the left a while to grasp that the Nazis were a fundamentally different foe than the Kaiser and that pretending that World War 2 was another war for the benefit of colonialists and arms dealers was the behavior of deluded lunatics. And yet
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