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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure

July 31, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.

How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?

July 22, 2019 By Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."

Let’s not leave the Soviet Union out of our D-Day history

June 6, 2019 By John Wojcik

World War II was won at battles like Stalingrad, long before the D-Day invasion.

Soviet socialism more popular than ever among Russians

January 4, 2019 By Gavin Mendel-Gleason

The USSR was thoroughly imperfect, but more Russians than ever are looking back fondly on the socialist system they lost.

Designed in the USSR: Artifacts of a lost civilization

May 21, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Western materialism depends on a culture of disposability, bewildering choice, rapid obsolescence, and keeping up with the Joneses. By comparison, the Soviet system was admirably sustainable.