Tag: Soviet Union

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Communism Is Threatened by Individuality

I speak with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was elected as vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We discuss his experience seeing the fall of the Soviet Union, what the concerns are in China when it comes to human rights, and his last trip to Hong Kong. We also look into…


Russia Still Leverages Marxist Ideology to Maintain Power: Senior Fellow

The current Russia is the by-product of the collapse of morality and lack of law advanced by the Marxist ideology, according to David Satter, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. “The lack of law, the lack of objective standards created a situation when Russia began the huge transition from socialist economics and state owned property…


Book Recommender: ’The Double Life of Katharine Clark,” a Real Life Story of Escaping Communism That Reads Like a Heart-Pounding Spy Thriller

Katherine Clark was an investigative reporter active between the 1940s and 1960s. She was the first female Allied war correspondent entering Berlin in 1945. Her 1950s beat was Eastern Europe. There, she spoke truth to power, what investigative reporters are supposed to do. But she spoke the wrong kind of truth about the wrong kind…


Former Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Says Russia Has Already Lost the War

Gao Yusheng, former Chinese ambassador to Ukraine, said recently at a forum that Russia “has already lost the Russia-Ukraine War.” His analysis of the cause and trend of the war is completely different from the Chinese communist regime’s pro-Russia rhetoric. In the speech, he also predicted that Russia would be expelled from important international organizations,…


Russian Ambassador Should Be Expelled From Australia: Ukraine Diplomat

Ukraine’s top diplomat in Australia said the Russian ambassador, Aleksey Pavlovsky, should be “expelled” from the country. “I’m a diplomat. I have to play along with my diplomatic narratives,” Ukrainian Charge d’Affaires Volodymyr Shalkivskyi told reporters at the National Press Club on March 10. “But when you have more than 50 children killed in your…


My Journey From Left to Right

During my first year at university, a senior student invited me to attend a meeting of a student organization. It was a meeting of a small group of students discussing communist revolutions around the world and the future of a revolution in India. It took some time for me to understand the student group was…


Liberator or Loyalist: ‘Gorbachev.Heaven’

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the final functional leader of the Soviet Union (as President and General Secretary of the Communist Party), now resembles a sad, solitary character from a Tolstoy novella. He was once one of the two most powerful men in the world, but his sunset years have mostly been spent isolated in his dacha….


Canada’s Dicey Plan to Build a Munitions Factory in Ukraine

Commentary Apparently Canada has a solution to the Ukraine crisis after all. Unfortunately it involves being somewhere else when the trigger, to torture a phrase from Orwell, isn’t pulled. Which won’t save our ally or our credibility. Back in 1994, as it fled the squalid wreckage of the Soviet Union, various nations promised that if Ukraine…


How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Taught the CCP to Fight the US | Talking Points With David Zhang

No one wants to be No. 2, or as the Chinese saying goes: two tigers cannot live on the same mountain. In a life or death situation, can China and the United States co-exist? We focus on the United States’ Cold War example of fighting against communism and the USSR. The 30th anniversary of the fall…


This Day in Market History: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On Dec. 8, 1991, the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War rivals for decades, officially dissolved. Where Was the Market? The S&P 500 closed the previous week at 379.10, and the Dow closed at 2,886.40. What…