Agricultural Collectivization —China
Private land ownership and the one-family farm were the basis of Chinese agriculture for more than two thousand years before the establishment of the People...
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"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain." It may not have been a Marxist revolution, but the Sov...
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It was supposed to be a ballet fit for a party boss: Winsome maids from the local collective farm prance around the stage carrying 5-foot long potatoes, while happy Soviet farmers celebrate yet ano...
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Jerry Seinfeld's trip to the Holy Land got so much hype it rivaled news of key upcoming Mideast talks.The Jewish comic visited Israel for the first time in decades to promote his new animated movie...
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Minsk/Washington (dpa) - The Belarus branch of the human rights
NGO Helsinki Committee shut down its office on Monday, effectively
ending the presence of one of the last ind...
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Minsk (dpa) - Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko in a
speech to parliament on Tuesday singled out China rather than Russia
as Belarus' "leading international ally." ...
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Minsk (dpa) - The authoritarian government of Belarus ordered a
leader of the country's evangelical Christian community, a Polish
national, to be kicked out of the country, ...
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Kiev (dpa) - Six Ukrainians died and another 46 suffered injuries
after the bus they were riding in rolled over and crashed, the
Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
...
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.The findings by the Government Accountabilit...
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Minsk (dpa) - Belarusian police blocked a visit to the former
Soviet republic by a group of Polish politicians, the Interfax news
agency reported on Thursday.
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Moscow (dpa) - "An official of pension age" was how the online
newspaper Gazeta.ru described Russia's new prime minister, Viktor
Zubkov, 65.
In recent years, ...
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Minsk (dpa) - Belarusian police on Thursday confiscated the entire
print run of an opposition newspaper, the Belapan news agency
reported.
Armed law enforcers...
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Agricultural Collectivization —China
The policies of Collectivization and Industrialization.
Once-banned Shostakovich ballet triumphs
