Tag: Soviet Union
How Beijing Used Three Communiqués to Trap Washington Into Abandoning Taiwan
The three communiqués that defined US-China relations were not diplomatic milestones. They were operations...
Communism: The Ideology That Turns Envy Into a Political Weapon
In 1959, a village party secretary in Henan province sat down to fill out his annual grain production...
Stalin’s Sanatorium: How Fifteen Communist Leaders Died on Soviet Soil
Long before the Second World War ended, communist party leaders from Eastern and Northern Europe were...
Mao’s Three Political ‘Coups:’ How They Remade China and Echo in the Xi Era (Part One)
In its conventional sense, a coup is an extraordinary move to overturn a political order, usually by...
Mao’s Great Famine: How the Chinese Communist Party Exported Food While Millions Starved
The Chinese Communist Party has long attributed the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 to "three years...
Stalin’s Final Hours: Abandoned on the Floor as Fear Paralyzed the Soviet Elite
By Fu Longshan On the evening of March 5, 1953, at 9:50 p.m., Joseph Stalin died. What followed was...
Why Li Dazhao Was Really Hanged: Power, Subversion, and the CCP’s First Execution
By Zhi Xiaomin Li Dazhao was executed by hanging in Beijing by the Beiyang government. For decades...
From Party Sword to Oligarchs: How the KGB Reinvented Itself After the USSR
By Fu Longshan To understand how the KGB—the Soviet Committee for State Security (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy...
Lin Biao’s Fatal Choice: From Rising Star to Eternal Infamy
Lin Biao was once hailed as a military prodigy — the hero of Pingxingguan, the young general Mao Zedong...
Socialism and Communism Aren’t What You Think They Are…
I already talked extensively about socialism and communism, especially in my article series about the...
Xi Is Not the Next ‘Chairman Mao’
With Chinese leader Xi Jinping set to take a norm-breaking third term and appoint trusted officials to...
Putin Recognizes Breakaway Eastern Territories, Says Ukraine Is a ‘Bolshevik’ Invention
In a long speech given Monday, Feb. 21, the president of Russia officially recognized the separatist...