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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ Last weekend, not only in Poland and Germany, but also in many European countries, governments and peace forces commemorated the beginning of the warlike part of the Second World War with Hitler’s German invasion of Poland. We deliberately say “warlike part” because, in our view, […]
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ We commemorate the liberation of the French capital by the forces of the French Resistance and French units as part of the Allied forces on August 25, 1944. Following the landing of Anglo-American troops in Normandy in June 1944, the French Resistance stepped up its
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ In view of the growing danger today of the war in Ukraine escalating into a European war with the direct involvement of NATO troops, this newsletter reminds us of the prehistory and the beginning of the First World War on August 1, 1914, 110 years
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By Jerry Ginsberg, US Friends of the Soviet People Caspar Grosse, a medic in an international volunteer unit in Ukraine, said he wrote this journal entry in October after a fellow soldier, known as Zeus, recounted executing a Russian prisoner. Credit…New York Times via Caspar Grosse Reports of cases of the Chosen Company, a volunteer
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On July 17, 2014, ten years ago, a Boeing-777 was shot down over the Donbass region. The Joint Investigation Team claimed that Russia and the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic were involved. But is their evidence solid enough? The investigation MH-17: in Search of Truth reveals new and earlier unknown details and focuses on
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Originally posted in The Worker Photo: Yuri Gagarin visits the tomb of Karl Marx, July 14, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, London, 1961 Who was Yuri Gagarin? Heroes of Socialism and the Soviet legacy are the heritage of American Communists. Much like being the first to fight against Fascists, and the first to organize against
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Recently the US Friends of the Soviet People republished many issues of Northstar Compass, the publishing organ for the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. Among one of those is a book titled “Secret Documents”, containing many texts from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), personal files from J.V. Stalin,
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104 years ago, June 19, 1920, the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR, headed by V.I. Lenin, adopted a decree establishing the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Elimination of Illiteracy (VChK Likbez). In pre-revolutionary Russia, the overwhelming majority of the population was illiterate – the general population census of 1897 recorded only 21% of
Come and See is a 1985 film about the Great Patriotic War, set in the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic during occupation from the Nazi Third Reich. The film is a war film which depicts the life of a young boy who joins the Soviet Communist partisan movement. The boy is growing up amidst the conflict
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Originally published in the July 1995 issue of Northstar Compass. Northstar Compass was the publication of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, an organization which was instrumental in the creation of the US Friends of the Soviet People Mr. Clinton let us be frank: Your visit to Ukraine did not delight our workers.
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