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A tech founder born in the Soviet Union compared metaverse hype to the communist propaganda he experienced as a child
A tech founder compared today's hype around the metaverse with Soviet propaganda he experienced as a child. Phil Libin, the founder of the note-taking app Evernote and the CEO of the ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
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Soviet Subversion, Disinformation and Propaganda: How the West Fought Against it
highlights eleven case studies in order to examine counter-disinformation and counter-propaganda tactics to explain Cold War strategies followed by the USSR as well as the Western response. The study ...
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The Space Race
NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into earth orbit ... the U.S.S.R. realizes that the Sputnik program is a huge propaganda tool. November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female ...
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Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...