Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman is a journalist from the U.S. now living in Berlin. He fled his U.S. Army post in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive, and became a freelance journalist and author. His latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee, is about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990, the tremendous improvements for the people under socialism, the reasons for the fall of socialism, and the importance of today's struggles.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman

World

In Thuringia, Germany, a fascist coup
February 7, 2020 By Victor Grossman
For the very first time, a state government – in Thuringia – was able to achieve rule with the support of the far, far right Alternative for Germany.
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Opinion

Could Bernie Sanders, like Jeremy Corbyn, be accused of anti-Semitism?
January 24, 2020 By Victor Grossman
Britain and the U.S. have had close ties, echoes and parallels from our start, some very good, others nasty.
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World

The bombs of the last war and preparations for the next rattle Germany
January 17, 2020 By Victor Grossman
75 years after WWII, the happy handshakes and yearnings of that momentous springtime of 1945 seem fully forgotten, erased.
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World

In Berlin and Erfurt, two murals belong to the people
January 6, 2020 By Victor Grossman
You see the fighter plane and the armed soldiers marauding through the village, masked villagers trying to protect it, panicked mothers and children - and the corpses.
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News

German marchers reflect the good, the bad and the ugly
December 3, 2019 By Victor Grossman
How do Germany’s main parties face up to the issues?
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Opinion

Germany’s pyrrhic victory over the Berlin Wall
November 12, 2019 By Victor Grossman
In the end, the odds were against the GDR. But its defeat doesn't mean the system it was building, socialism, was proven false.
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Politics

Thirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being “remembered”
October 15, 2019 By Victor Grossman
Why does the right wing all around the world continue to beat up on the long-gone German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
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World

Impeachment is the first, not final, move to defeat Trumpism
September 30, 2019 By Victor Grossman
What’s really at stake is democracy, peace, progress, and survival at home and around the world.
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