HISTORY AND THE CURRENT CONTEXT
Updated with information as found by members of the committee.
* "US 'honor roll' of historic places often ignores slavery" (2020-02-23, AP newswire, via news.yahoo.com/us-honor-roll-historic-places-142654918.html) [archive.is/oxbkT]
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* "Victor Arnautoff's 'Life & Era of George Washington's New Deal Murals' " (2020-02-25, by Labor Video Project, via indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/25/18831041.php) [archive.is/i2lTI]
* "Native American elders call on SF school board to keep controversial mural on view" (2020-02-24, sfchronicle.com/education/article/Native-American-elders-call-on-SF-school-board-to-15074933.php) [archive.is/YbkUr]
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* "Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate" (2020-02-27, blackagendareport.com/black-america-endless-war-and-evil-genius-russiagate) [archive.is/kROq3] [begin excerpt]: “The Black Misleadership Class is more ridiculous and cartoonish than they have ever been.”
This turn towards war by the Black Misleadership Class was set in motion, not by Trump – who is anathema in Black America – but by Barack Obama, the First Black President. Before Obama -- and for all of Black history on this continent – Black people have been supremely skeptical of the motives of the U.S. government and its wars against people of color around the world. War propaganda and the demonization of peoples targeted by the United States, did not work among Black Americans. We knew that the U.S. powers-that-be constantly lied about us, and that they were probably lying about the people they were invading and bombing.
Our anti-war posture was homegrown, because we were the eternal domestic victims of U.S. coercive power -- from white mobs and white media and the police.
You don’t have to be as old as I am to remember when, in Black conversations about U.S. wars, it wasn’t “What are WE doing over there?” but rather, “What are THEY doing killing folks” in other people’s countries? We didn’t identify with the U.S. war machine.
Black organizations were early opponents of the Vietnam War. SNCC was anti-war before the first U.S. troop buildup. Malcolm X opposed all this country’s wars. Martin Luther King broke with sometimes-ally President Lyndon Johnson, to denounce the war. The Black Panther Party proclaimed revolutionary solidarity with the Vietnamese, and with all people’s struggling against U.S. imperialism.
The heavily-Black U.S. Army in Vietnam refused to be cannon fodder. Black troops fought pitched battles with white military police in Da Nang and other places. They burned down the military prison in Long Binh – because U.S. “military justice” is also mass Black incarceration, just like the U.S. civilian system. They took out officers and NCOs in what were called “fraggings.” Black troops made the U.S. Army in Vietnam useless.
“We knew that the U.S. powers-that-be constantly lied about us, and that they were probably lying about the people they were invading and bombing.”
By 1970, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were demanding an all-volunteer Army, so that they could recruit the kind of solders that would do their bidding.
In the late Sixties my unit, the 82nd Airborne Division, was 60 percent Black, as were other elite units. By the time of the Iraq War, the 82nd had become the whitest division in the U.S. Army. Blacks still made up 20 percent of the U.S. military, but they were now mainly in support units, not the combat arms line units.
The U.S. military knows full well that Black America has never been Gung Ho for war. Near the beginning of the Iraq War, Black mothers began urging their sons and daughters not to enlist. The Army’s top brass was thrown into a panic. Black enlistment dropped dramatically. They called it “The Black Mothers’ Strike” against the war.
Two weeks before George Bush invaded Iraq, the Zogby polling organization conducted a survey. They asked, “Would you be in favor of a U.S. invasion of Iraq if it resulted in the death of thousands of Iraqi civilians?”
Big majorities of whites said, “Yes,” go ahead and invade.
Sixteen percent of Hispanic Americans said they supported an invasion, if it kills thousands of civilians.
But only seven percent of Black American were for an invasion that would wreak such carnage. Blacks remained in overwhelming opposition throughout the Iraq War.
But, then came Obama.
For the first time, Black people identified with the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Empire. When Obama threatened to bomb Syria, supposedly in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack – an attack that was actually staged by the Islamic jihadists that Obama had deployed as foot soldiers of empire – another poll was taken. It showed, for the first time in U.S. polling history, that Blacks were more in favor of bombing Syria, than whites. Only a minority of all Americans favored the bombing. But 38 percent of Blacks went along with Obama’s proposed air strike, versus about 36 percent of whites, if my memory serves me.
“For the first time in U.S. polling history, Blacks were more in favor of bombing Syria, than whites.”
Even though Black majorities were not in favor of Obama’s war on Syria, his very presence in the White House created a huge distortion in Black views on war and peace. For that, and many other reasons, we at Black Agenda Report were glad to see Obama go. We hoped that Black America would return to its historical consensus in favor of social justice and peace. And we were confident that that consensus remains largely intact among the masses of Black Americans.
However, the Democrats -- who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all critics of U.S. war-making with Russia and, thereby, with Trump.
That’s the evil genius of Russiagate, a CIA-concocted lie designed to maintain the momentum of Obama’s military offensive around the planet – without Obama.
Fortunately, we now have a fighting organization that upholds the historical Black consensus against imperial wars, and connects these wars to the militarized oppression of Black and brown people here at home. The Black Alliance for Peace fills a huge void that has existed since the loss of Black Voices for Peace . [end excerpt]
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New Cold War against History
* "Polish court orders investigation into demolition of Soviet cemetery" (2020-03-03, rt.com/news/482155-poland-russia-wwii-soviet-memorial/) [archive.is/A7h1t]
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* "Ukraine decided who are its 'heroes' by choosing the Nazis" (2020-02-20, ria.ru/20200220/1564978524.html) [archive.is/pvWNH], (translation, donbass-insider.com/2020/02/25/ukraine-decided-who-are-its-heroes-by-choosing-the-nazis/) [archive.is/Ymgc2]:
Vladimir Kornilov, political scientist and journalist, shows through the way Ukraine treated the anniversary of two figures of the Second World War, that Kiev chooses its “heroes” among the Nazis and their collaborators rather than among those who defeated them.
This week two significant anniversaries are being celebrated in Ukraine. To be more precise, one of them is really celebrated in the country, and the second, connected with a true Ukrainian hero, is celebrated rather outside of it, in Russia and France. Significance is just in Kiev’s approach to the two dates, which clearly shows whose side of the history of World War II was chosen by the current Ukrainian government.
One of these anniversaries is not very “round”: the 115th anniversary of the writer Ulas Samchuk, whom modern pseudohistorical propaganda calls “Ukrainian Homer”. It is possible to argue for a long time about how “Homeric” were the cannibalistic works of this author, but the indisputable fact of his biography is close cooperation with the Nazis.
There is no point in denying it, if only because in 1941-1942 Samchuk openly published his apology of Hitler in the newspaper Volyn (https://nahnews.org/911023-kornilov-shkolniki-izuchayut-tvorchestvo-nacistov-bogotvorivshix-gitlera), which he personally edited, not just not hiding under a pseudonym (as more far-sighted collaborators), but even braving his ideological closeness to the Nazis. Thus, in the first issue of this newspaper, which was published by the Goebbels propaganda department in the capital of the “Reichskommissariat Ukraina”, Rovno, Samchuk modestly placed two portraits side by side – one of the German Fuhrer and himself. All this was accompanied by a laudatory ode to Hitler, personally signed by the editor-in-chief of Volyn.
And Samchuk published such odes in almost every issue. Analyzing another speech of Hitler, he proclaimed (https://newsland.com/community/7552/content/ukh-gitlera-v-ukrainskikh-shkolakh/5504936): “This is that invincible spiritual and moral power, which over the centuries has formed and hardened that people. These are those multiple generations of immortal bearers of the creative spirit of the people, who in his conclusion is today at the head of historical events under the leadership of his mighty Leader”. After such praise to the leader of Nazi Germany it is difficult to doubt the collaboration of the “Ukrainian Homer”.
But what he wrote in March 1942: “The Fuhrer of Great Germany, with his knightly soldiers brought us freedom. DON’T FORGET THAT! (emphasis added in original. – Author’s note) We thank the Führer Adolf Hitler and the victorious German soldiers, cultivating our land with double care“. Again, there are a lot of such eulogies published by Samchuk.
But in addition to the unbridled praise of Hitler and the ideas of Nazism, the editor of Volyn constantly promoted Holocaust ideas. He gladly welcomed the extermination of the Jews in Rovno and Kiev. Many of his notes and articles are devoted to the ideological justification of the Holocaust (https://archive.is/o/Ymgc2/ipiend.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hon_depersonifikatsiia.pdf). “There are (no Jews) there where the Ukrainian state is being built,” the Samchuk’s newspaper wrote on 27 November 1941. It is not surprising that the Embassy of Israel protested against the inclusion by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the anniversary of this figure and a number of similar collaborators in the list of commemorative dates for this year (https://mfa.gov.il/MFARUS/ForeignRelations/Bilateral%20relations/EuroAsia/Ukraine/Pages/Israeli-Embassy-in-Ukraine-protests-against-recommendation-to-honor-Nazi-collaborators.aspx).
Which, in turn, has caused indignation among the ideologists of modern Ukrainian nationalism. “Svoboda” activist Iryna Farion called the embassy’s statement “boorish” and stressed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnyOxxEEqDY&list=PLoGBwQTOYob5kZSjYxfgKBa9xGxggUnHi&index=4&t=0s): “Do you hear the State of Israel? The Volyn newspaper has become the mouthpiece of the Ukrainians’ ideas in the struggle for their Ukrainian national power”.
The other day, by the way, she responded to the Israeli Yad Vashem’s call not to honor another Ukrainian collaborator by (quite in the spirit of the Nazi Samchuk’s newspaper ) accusing Jews of organizing the famine of the 1930s (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=171550990808404&id=100038605121691): “They organized a holodomor for us, now they have seized power with the hands of this possessed rabble, and they also put their dirty paws on our famous personalities”.
When Farion was accused of anti-Semitism, she calmly replied: “Honestly, I do not even know what it is”. I wonder if Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who recently said in an interview with an Israeli newspaper that there is allegedly no anti-Semitism in the country, does he also not know what it is, or does he not suspect the existence of Farion?
Anyway, despite Israel’s appeals, the “not very round” anniversary of Ulas Samchuk was celebrated in Ukraine with great ceremony. In any case, it was celebrated at the municipal level. At the monument to Samchuk, the Museum of Samchuk held many events (https://www.golos.com.ua/news/108884), including the involvement of schoolchildren – they even organized a tournament of board games in honor of the Nazi collaborator (https://www.facebook.com/RivnePlastNSOU/posts/3262300810465155?__tn__=-R). The Writers’ Union of Ukraine and a lot of major media, including traditional Western “voices”, responded to this anniversary.
But far more round anniversary of a true Ukrainian hero was not actually “noticed” there. We are talking about the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Lieutenant Vasyl Porik, a native of the present Vinnitsa region, Hero of the Soviet Union and the hero of the French Resistance. Although this anniversary was also included in the list of commemorative dates for this year, the Ukrainian media simply ignored it. Russian mass media actively wrote about it (https://russian.rt.com/science/article/718843-partizan-vasilii-porik-franciya), it was remembered in France (https://russkiymir.ru/news/269094/), even the Russian Foreign Ministry responded (https://vk.com/mid?w=wall-70034991_394779), but all-Ukrainian official authorities not. Apparently, the fact that Porik was a convinced communist and led a battalion named after Stalin in France, does not fit into modern notions of decommunized Ukraine about “true heroes”.
By approaching these two memorable dates, Kiev has most clearly demonstrated whose side of the history of World War II it chooses. Whatever Zelensky said in his New Year’s Eve address (by the way, he deliberately plagiarized the words of the same Samchuk printed in the same Nazi newspaper in 1941 https://focus.ua/politics/447541-v_facebook_pishut_chto_zelenskii_v_novogodnei_rechi_pereinachil_statiu_samchuka_1941_goda) about the fact that he doesn’t care who the street is named after, if it is asphalted, in fact Ukraine constantly places itself in this history on the side of the losers.
Well, the more cynical will be the call for “reconciliation” between Banderists and war veterans, which we will probably hear from the mouth of Ukrainian officials to the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism and these very same Banderists. As we see, in practice, all talks about “reconciliation” with the collaborators lead to the glorification of outspoken Nazis and forgetting the true winners of that war.
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* "How socialism became un-American through the Ad Council’s propaganda campaigns" (2020-02-27, theconversation.com/how-socialism-became-un-american-through-the-ad-councils-propaganda-campaigns-132335) [archive.is/tNN5X] [begin excerpt]:
Business and government solidarity
In 1942, a group of advertising and industry executives created the War Advertising Council, to promote the war effort. The government compensated the companies that created or donated ads by allowing them to deduct some of their costs from their taxable incomes.
Renamed the Ad Council in 1943, the organization applied the same wartime persuasive techniques of advertising and psychological manipulation during the Cold War years, the post-war period when the geopolitical rivalry between the U.S., the USSR and their respective allies raged. One of their goals: promoting the virtues of capitalism and free enterprise in America while simultaneously demonizing the alternative – socialism – which was often conflated with communism.
Government propaganda at home portrayed the communist USSR as godless, tyrannical and antithetical to individual freedoms. As a counterpoint, America became everything the Soviet Union was not.
This link between capitalism and American national identity was advertised through a sophisticated, corporate effort as efficient and ubiquitous as state-driven propaganda behind the Iron Curtain.
The campaigns used the ideological divisions of the Cold War to emphasize the relevance of their message. In a 1948 report, the Ad Council explained its goal to the public: “The world today is engaged in a colossal struggle to determine whether freedom or statism will dominate.”
Extolling capitalism’s virtues
The campaigns started as a public-private partnership. At the end of World War II, the government worried about the spread of communism at home. Business interests worried about government regulations and about the rising popularity of unions. The Cold War provided both parties with a shared enemy.
In 1947, President Truman asked the Ad Council to organize the Freedom Train Campaign, focusing on the history of America’s political freedoms. Paramount Pictures, U.S. Steel, DuPont, General Electric and Standard Oil provided financial support. For two years the train crisscrossed the nation, carrying original documents that included the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
The following year, the Ad Council launched a business-led campaign, called “The Miracle of America,” intended to foster support for the American model of capitalism, as distinct from its Western European version, which was more friendly to government intervention. It urged increased productivity by U.S. workers, linked economic and political freedom and, paradoxically, asserted capitalism’s collaborative nature.
“Sure, America is going ahead if we all pull together,” read a brochure. Another flyer, “Comes the Revolution!,” cast its support of American capitalism in the language of global struggle: “If we continue to make that system work…then other nations will follow us. If we don’t, then they’ll probably go communist or fascist.”
In its first two years, the Miracle of America message reached American audiences via 250 radio and television stations and 7,000 outdoor billboards. Newspapers printed 13 million lines of free advertising. The Ad Council boasted that the campaign made over 1 billion “radio listener impressions.”
American factory workers received about half of the 1.84 million copies of the free pamphlet “The Miracle of America.” One-quarter were distributed free of charge to schools, and 76 universities ordered the booklet.
This pro-business propaganda, expressed in the language of Cold War patriotism, had reached roughly 70% of the American population by the end of the campaign. [end excerpt]
- image caption: One of the Ad Council’s messages about capitalism in America.
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* "New Film Showcases How the Rainbow Coalition’s Struggle for Justice Lives On" (2020-02-16, truthout.org/articles/new-film-showcases-how-the-rainbow-coalitions-struggle-for-justice-lives-on/) [archive.is/Wv1mw]
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* "Our History" (2010-04, roadtoliberation.org/about-us/our-history/) [archive.is/8U0UJ] [begin excerpt]:
The world is certainly different from 1985 when two small organizations, Proletarian Unity League (PUL) and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH), formed Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino Para La Libertad (FRSO/OSCL).
Both PUL and the RWH came out of what was called the New Communist Movement (NCM). During the Sixties, tens of thousands of young people in this country called themselves revolutionaries. A slew of parties and organizations arose in preparation for a revolution that seemed on the horizon. Most groups told the world they were the only ones who could lead the revolution. By the late ’70s the upsurge had subsided. Shortly afterwards, the NCM collapsed as well, in large part because of in-fighting between groups/parties each claiming the be “the one true” one.
Both PUL and RWH had opposed this “one true path” thinking. They centered unity efforts among survivors of the collapse who shared that viewpoint. Even so, it was an earnest struggle just to unite the two groups in 1985.
Line was hammered out on a number of issues. In particular, PUL folk got RWH members clear on the role of white privilege—specifically the role white privilege plays in maintaining the oppression of the Black nation, the Chicana/o nation and the First Nations, and in stunting the development of class consciousness and unity in the US working class.
The Congress voted to become the Freedom Road, borrowing another name for the Underground Railroad, so as to put the struggle of the Black Nation, and by implication all oppressed nationalities, at the center of our politics, even if the new organization was still uncomfortably white.
By dumping grandiose names so popular from the 1930s – 1970s, and avoiding claims to be “The Party, ”Freedom Road now had openings to share our vision of how a real revolutionary party could only be built by uniting a broad range of forces, based on working together in struggle.
MORE UNITY -
The merger of the two organizations was just the start. When more groups rallied to Freedom Road, it validated our approach that party building should take place by unifying socialist forces from various backgrounds.
First, in 1986 came a West Coast-based group called the Organization for Revolutionary Unity (ORU). They brought a wealth of experience, especially from the Chicano movement.
ORU had ties on the other side of the continent with the Amilcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective, Black Marxist-Leninists who had moved to the traditional homeland of the Black Nation, the Black Belt South. Their decision in 1989 to join The Road was a watershed. Now we were a group with increased membership of people of color with a presence in Black revolutionary and nationalist circles.
THE JACKSON CAMPAIGNS -
All of this came after Jesse Jackson’s 1984 bid for the Democratic Party nomination for President. His 1984 and 1988 bids marked the high point of nearly 20-year period when the Black Liberation Movement’s main focus was electoral, a strategy geared toward consolidating gains that had been won in the street.
But the two Jackson campaigns were more than that. Jackson had the most left platform of any major party candidate in the 20th century. He won support from a broad array of forces—African Americans, naturally, and other oppressed nationality communities, but also several unions, white family farmers in the Midwest crippled by the Reagan Recession, gays facing the first great wave of AIDS deaths, feminists, students and more. Much of the organized socialist left in the US, and an even larger section of unaffiliated reds and revolutionaries threw themselves into the campaigns.
Jackson’s newly formed National Rainbow Coalition, billed as an independent form that would fight inside and outside of the Democratic Party for a radical agenda, provided a common project for comrades to work on and around. Now we could test and strengthen the unity we had built. In 1988, Jackson won nearly a third of the delegates, and the Democratic Party moved hard to co-opt him.
When Jackson slid into the Democratic Party mainstream he tried to bring his whole campaign with him. But The Road members joined others fighting to keep their state Rainbows independent until he dissolved them.
ANOTHER MERGER -
Among those who chose to go with Jesse into the Democrats were members of the League for Revolutionary Struggle (LRS), the largest surviving group from the New Communist Movement. They disbanded the group and distanced themselves from their revolutionary past. Not everyone in LRS agreed.
These folks established the Socialist Organizing Network. By 1995 they had merged with The Road. The new organization maintained the The Road name along with most of the line and functioning of the original The Road.
LEFT POLES -
The 1990s were a transitional decade, with an economy transformed by neo-liberalism, de-unionization, and the revolution in information/communications technology. The election of “moderate” Democrat Bill Clinton as President disarmed many, in particular the leaders of mainstream organizations in the social movements. They essentially rolled over as Clinton continued neoliberal Reagan/Bush policies like deregulation, most fatefully in finance.
Under these circumstances, The Road made the strategic decision to build organized left poles within the various social movements. Examples included La Raza Left Asian Left Forum, the Labor Left, and especially the Black Radical Congress.
In 1998 over 2,000 Black intellectuals, organizers, politicians, workers, students, community folk and leftists gathered in Chicago to start the Black Radical Congress (BRC). The BRC was conceived in response to the sexism of the Million Man March and its rebuff of the black Left. Grassroots groups like the Organization of Black Struggle from St. Louis and Black Workers For Justice from North Carolina helped anchor it. It issued a Black Freedom Agenda and launched several national campaigns.
In the course of doing this kind of work, The Road adopted in the late ’90s ambitious goals for transforming the internal culture and demographics of Liberation Road, to make the organization majority people of color, upping the figures for women, young folks, LGBTQ, and working class people, and developing these folks as our leadership. Making substantial progress on that goal has meant that not everyone who wants to join can come in when they want. [end excerpt]
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1970s poster of the August 29th Movement
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* "Uruguay's prosecutor opens new files against humanity" (2020-02-29, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=52808&SEO=uruguays-prosecutor-opens-new-files-against-humanity) [archive.is/gUpWq]
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* (1976-02, The Clandestine Rebel, no. 114, Official Organ of the Revolutionary Left Movement MIR, via cedema.org/ver.php?id=8556) [archive.is/cMOAS], (machine translation, translate.google.com) [archive.is/K3998], document (cedema.org/uploads/El_Rebelde_cland-114.pdf) [is.gd/z0fetb]
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* (1983-01-19, Guerrilla Informant no. 19, Guerrilla Army of the Poor / Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres EGP, via cedema.org/ver.php?id=8558) [archive.is/Dq2xP], (machine translation, translate.google.com) [archive.is/LNN2g], document (cedema.org/uploads/Inf_Guerrillero-19.pdf) [is.gd/YDuhZV]
* (1983-02-07, Guerrilla Informant no. 20, Guerrilla Army of the Poor EGP, & Guatemalteca National Revolutionary Unit URNG, via cedema.org/ver.php?id=8559) [archive.is/eQm9a], (machine translation, translate.google.com) [archive.is/kl7cM], document (cedema.org/uploads/Inf_Guerrillero-20.pdf) [is.gd/u4AfLq]
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* (1988-02-01, Rebel Voice no. 10, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru MRTA, via cedema.org/ver.php?id=8561) [archive.is/Sk1LT], (machine translation, translate.google.com) [archive.is/hAJI6], document (cedema.org/uploads/Voz_Rebelde-10.pdf) [is.gd/d5dxp8]
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* "We bet on a Great Alliance" (1993-02-01, BARRICADA INTERNACIONAL interview with Shafick Handal, Coordinator for Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation FMLN, via cedema.org/ver.php?id=8557) [archive.is/q5lGe], (machine translation, translate.google.com) [archive.is/p2GFx], document (cedema.org/uploads/FMLN_1993-02_Handal.pdf) [is.gd/egieXE]
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March 4, 1945 – Alexandra Samusenko died in action some 70 km from Berlin. She was the first female commander of a tank battalion – a real ‘tankie’. She volunteered to the Red Army as an ordinary foot soldier. In 1941 she defended Bryansk and Voronezh from advancing Nazi troops. Was severely wounded and after recovery demanded to train her as a tank driver. She participated in the Kursk battle, 1943 and then was quickly promoted to the rank of captain for her professional actions in the battle. On March 3, 1945 was severely wounded in action again - on an attempt to storm Berlin. Died of wounds at a hospital next day.
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* "The ‘Stolen Province’: Why Turkey Was Given A Corner Of Syria By France 80 Years Ago" (2020-02-29, sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002291078432455-the-stolen-province-why-turkey-was-given-a-corner-of-syria-by-france-80-years-ago/) [archive.is/DL1kf]
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* "I Was a C.I.A. Victim of the MK-ULTRA Experiments" (2019-09-03, diablogazette.com/2019/09/i-was-a-c-i-a-victim-of-the-mk-ultra-experiments/) [archive.is/AHeKl]
* "A Victim of CIA’s MK-Ultra The Awakening" (2019-10-09, diablogazette.com/2019/10/a-victim-of-cias-mk-ultra-the-awakening/) [archive.is/q0yzK]
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Communist International History
* "Most Russians regret USSR collapse, dream of its return, poll shows" (2016-04-19, rt.com) [archive.is/qQzl8]
* U.S. Friends of the Soviet People [facebook.com/groups/291623721304790] [paypal.me/USFSP], Forum [facebook.com/groups/528711703837621] / PCUSA Recommended Reading List [archive.is/tWQrI]
* "Russian nostalgia for Soviet Union reaches 13-year high" (2018-12-19, reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-sovietunion/russian-nostalgia-for-soviet-union-reaches-13-year-high-idUSKBN1OI20Q) [archive.is/ZDzDh]
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* "A History of How Cuba’s Anti-Viral Medicine is Being Used in China" (2020-02-20, resumen-english.org/2020/02/a-history-of-how-cubas-anti-viral-medicine-is-being-used-in-china/) [archive.is/vXpCT]
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Anti-Communist myths debunked (updated 2018) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxwhh-vdeB--47HM-20cEVRC9eAMhrapbNf0Sk8VSOs/edit]
Stalin's "35 million", debunked! Nobody who reads this book can see Soviet history the same again!
"Fraud, Famine and Fascism The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard" (1987, by Douglas Tottle, via rationalrevolution.net/special/library/famine.htm) [is.gd/pzYqp4].
Those who hate this book only can resort to insults, and never look at the evidence! The book's evidence has never been disproved!
Stalin said he "liquidated 10 million Kulaks" according to Churchill... but then, that wasn't a Churchill quote. It was 2nd hand. And Churchill never claimed he said it! And... "liquidated" means these Kulaks were no longer a land-holding class anymore, their means of control were liquidated.
So... "35 million" Ukrainians... Debunked!
"10 million liquidated Kulaks"... Debunked!
"The Great Terror"? Let's study that more. People died in 1937, of course.
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Overviews of World History before the Modern Age
* "Greek antiquities' untold imprints on "what we fought for" in 1821" (2020-02-29, xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/01/c_138830968.htm) [archive.is/tIbSD]
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* "THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE US ANNEXATION OF MEXICO’S NORTHERN TERRITORIES" (2019-09-22, roadtoliberation.org/the-historical-and-political-significance-of-the-us-annexation-of-mexicos-northern-territories/) [archive.is/vP1Wt]
1840 Map of México
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(March 1, 1896), Battle of Adwa, military clash at Adwa, in north-central Ethiopia, between the Ethiopian army of Emperor Menilek II and Italian forces. The Ethiopian army’s victory checked Italy’s attempt to build an empire in Africa. The victory had further significance for being the first crushing defeat of a European power by African forces during the colonial era
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The "Dark Enlightenment" and neo-Reactionary Studies [is.gd/wZHos7]With a focus on European supremacist ideology, including Antisemitic modalities, and "Racial Science".
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Archival sites save a text and a graphical copy of a web page with no active elements and no scripts (nor popups or malware), and with timestamps, including Archive.org (how-to) (donate), [peeep.us] [via.hypothes.is] [webcitation.org] [webrecorder.io], & Archive.is/fo (how-to) (donate).
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