US Friends of the Soviet People
Comrades and friends, the latest edition of the US Friends of the Soviet People bulletin is out. You can view it below as well as in our updated Bulletin section which includes many of our past work to 1998. Warm regards, Board of Directors,US Friends of the Soviet People.
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The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) fundraises for Nazi Azov Battalion as it recruits Canadian mercenaries Written by: Marthad Umucyaba The Canada Files has found that the Canadian government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), Nazi honourers who defend Yaroslav Hunka, have quietly done a fundraiser for the Nazi Azov 12th Special Forces Brigade. This fundraiser comes in the context of active recruitment of Canadian
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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