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Rules vs. Reality: How Competing Views Shape the Way We Use Language
From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people...

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Sep 8, 20259 min read


Xi Jinping on the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War
Xi Jinping addresses the military parade and Chinese nation, September 3, 2025 -- image via video screenshot On September 3, 2025, Xi...

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Sep 5, 20255 min read


Fidel’s Economics of National Liberation
By Shiran Illanperuma 13 August 2025 marked what would have been the 99th birthday of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. It also marks the...

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Sep 4, 20256 min read


Ural ZIS-21A -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #11
From the original Soviet card (translated): Ural ZIS-21A (1946-1952) gas generator vehicle based on the Ural 3IS-5M truck. Engine...

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Sep 3, 20251 min read


Wanping City and the Museum of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish While exploring Beijing, travelers may find it hard to envision the rich history,...

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Sep 3, 20253 min read


"Long live the glorious Socialist Republic of Viet Nam": To Lam speaks on National Day
Image of To Lam via X English translation made available by multiple official sources of General Secretary of the Communist Party of...

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Sep 2, 20255 min read


Cuba celebrates the 80th anniversary of Vietnam's August Revolution and National Day
With the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel...

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Aug 26, 20254 min read


India's Communists mourn Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
Image via the CPI Communists in India are mourning the death of Comrade Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, former General Secretary of the...

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Aug 23, 20252 min read


The Petrov Factory cafeteria in Stalingrad, 1960
From the Soviet Press in 1960, a look at the Petrov Factory cafeteria in Stalingrad (just before the city was renamed to Volgograd)....

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Aug 20, 20256 min read


The first Communist Party of Cuba: 100 years later
Images via the PCC Lecture by Elvis Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, vice president of the Cuban Institute of History, in the commemoration of...

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Aug 18, 202510 min read


One hundred years of the first Communist Party of Cuba
By Dayán González, translated from the Spanish A century ago, in the turbulent city of Havana, marked by the deep domination of American...

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Aug 16, 20252 min read


¡Y venceremos!: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on Fidel
By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba,...

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Aug 13, 20253 min read


The Revolution of '33 and the end of Machado's tyranny
Image via the PCC By Roberto Morales Ojeda, secretary of organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, translated...

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Aug 12, 20252 min read


The Lenin Peace Prize Winners of 1962
A remarkable year for a remarkable prize. Winners included Kwame Nkrumah and Pablo Picasso and hailed from Ghana, France, the Hungarian...

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Aug 10, 20253 min read


Working at the Vladimir Ilyich Electromechanical Plant, 1960 #7 & 8
From the Soviet Press, 1960 The union was an important factor in getting the plant and personnel prepared for the switchover to the 7...

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Aug 10, 20251 min read


Manifesto No. 1 of the M-26-7 (July 26 Movement) to the People of Cuba
On August 8, 2025, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) commemorated the 70th anniversary of...

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Aug 10, 202518 min read


ZIS-155 -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #10
From the original Soviet card (translated): ZIS-155 (1949-1957) City bus with front engine based on ZIS-155 truck units. A modification...

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Aug 9, 20251 min read


Working at the Vladimir Ilyich Electromechanical Plant, 1960 #5 & 6
From The Soviet Press, 1960 Along with the changeover to the 7-hour day came not only more free time but a general overhaul of the wage...

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Aug 9, 20251 min read


Unbearable Perfection: The Crack That Gave Birth to the 20th Century in the West
The Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna -- C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon From the orderly center...

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Aug 9, 20252 min read


The Soviet Palace of Congresses
A look at the magnificent Soviet palace from 1962 & 1979 From the Soviet Press, July 1962: ALTHOUGH the Palace of Congresses is one of...

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Aug 5, 20254 min read
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