On December 28th, 1917, just weeks after the October Revolution, the People’s Commissariat of Public Charity was formed as a department tasked with the protection of infants.
Tokyo: Anti-Fascist Protest (18.5.2015)
This US policy of re-Nationalising Japan led to the bizarre reality of Japanese Zen masters (that had committed war-crimes against US troops during WWII), being ‘invited’ to the US to convert Westerners to fascistic Japanese Buddhism…
The USSR and Homosexuality Part II (Czarist Article 995)
These events created the impression that the USSR had deliberately ‘decriminalised’ and then ‘legalised’ homosexuality, but this view was not entirely correct. Yes, the USSR had abolished the oppressive Czarist Legal Code, and in so doing had dissolved Article 995.
Gary Miles – Where Are You?
Dear Gary I last saw you in Hereford probably about 1987 – at the college there. You wrote me a letter not long after –
Sue-Ling Chan-Wyles Gongfu Award (17.10.2005)
Although this certificate was awarded to my eldest daughter in Sutton, London, it turned-up in a file of important documents in Torquay, Devon, at the
Chinese Ambassador Meets Prime Minister Domingos Simões Parreira of Guinea-Bissau (2015)
Prime Minister Pereira further stated that he intended to study the Collected Works of the General Secretary in greater details, so that the governing Independence Party can engage in a positive exchange with the Communist Party of China regarding the theory and practice of the good governance of a country.