Tag: Soviet Union
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In former Soviet countries, Stalin surprisingly popular
Especially in Georgia, Josef Stalin's home country, the ruthless former Soviet dictator enjoys a remarkably high level of support. According to new research from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Stalin is widely admired, some 60 years after his death....
Regina Spektor's new album has old roots
Regina Spektor's anticipated new album, "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats" was released Tuesday. Spektor was born in Moscow and emigrated with her family to the Bronx when she was nine. She said her newest album carries old Russian influences....
As depicted in new Sacha Cohen movie 'The Dictator,' tyrants have long loved films
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest satire "The Dictator" opened Wednesday. The film stars Cohen as the power-mad leader of a fictional North African country. Long before Cohen arrived on the scene, many of history's most notorious dictators were fans of the film industry. ...
Anniversary: Recalling Nixon's trip to China, 40 years later
Today marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. In February 1972, in the final years of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon flew to China to meet with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. The meeting has been memorialized as the triumph of Nixon's career....
New book looks at role of Hoover in modern anti-terror culture
As director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover created the modern idea of counter terrorism. His tactics included measures which overruled the constitution and discarded individual freedoms. In Enemies: A History of the FBI, author Tim Weiner used recently declassified intelligence files to write a comprehensive history of the FBI....
A book about waiting in line
In 1960s Russia, friendships develop, feuds and fist-fights erupt and romance blossoms for those waiting in 'The Line.'...
'My Perestroika': the children of the revolution
Almost 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the film "My Perestroika" looks back on the last generation that grew up behind the iron curtain. ...
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