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Objections to textbook raised
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[South Asia Mail] - “While trying to glorify Marxism, it entirely blacked out the cruelties perpetrated by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. It also says that the United States is a country where islets of affluence and poverty exist side by side,” he said.
Google News: What Was D-Day?
[International Business Times] - As early as 1942, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union had demanded US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launch a land attack on European soil in order the relieve the Russian army of fighting the
KNIGHT: Democratic press handmaidens
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[Washington Times] - In 1931, New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Walter Duranty parroted Soviet propaganda while Joseph Stalin systematically starved, shot and tortured to death his opponents. Duranty, who won the Times' first Pulitzer Prize in 1932, looked the other way
White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia
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[New York Times] - Under Joseph Stalin and his Communist successors, White Nights were disciplined affairs, limited to a smattering of classical music concerts. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, St. Petersburg's summer remained subdued: the economy had
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