Dear Gillian The population of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) enjoyed far greater democratic choice and freedom than anyone living in the capitalist West (who
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Dear Gillian The population of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) enjoyed far greater democratic choice and freedom than anyone living in the capitalist West (who
There is a crisis of credibility in the West regarding the deficient manner in which Soviet history is treated. This is because the history of
This has been part of a Turkic ‘Islamo-fascist’ offensive which has seen a ‘pan-Turkish’ nationalism advocating the ‘supremacy’ of the Turkish race and Turkish religion (this is sometimes seen operating in the terrorist attacks carried-out by Uyghurs in China). One ridiculous US-Turkish allegation is that the Bulgarian government ‘forcibly’ tried to inflict Bulgarian names upon ethnic Turks between 1985 – 1989. From a Socialist point of view, this makes no sense whatsoever. This is so ludicrous that even Wikimedia (which usually has no problems publishing all kinds of US disinformation and anti-intellectualism), has ‘drawn the line’ at the at the ‘Revival Process’ myth and removed the relevant page to a ‘discussion’ section stating that there is a problem with authentication and objectivity! At least this is the case in the Bulgarian-language pages of Wikipedia- which are a mine-field of neo-Nazi glorification, US Disinformation, US anti-intellectualism, US pseudo-history and plain lies. The Turkic people were never oppressed in Socialist Bulgaria (and forced to change their names), but Turkish fascism spreading from Turkey, may have caused minor problems from time to time.
The bulk of English-language publications follow the disinformation line formulated by the ideologues of the USA. Although this undoubtedly existed prior to 1945, after the
I have always admired Ho Chi Minh, General Giap and the ‘Socialist’ Vietnamese Movement. I consider the Vietnamese military victories over the imperialist Japanese, French
Poland was never part of the USSR, but it was part of the Communist Bloc from 1939-1941, and again from 1944-1990 (until the Trotskyite Solidarity