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An American Businessman Visits the Soviet Union in 1930.

The Berlin Wall, the most visible manifestation of Communist oppression, came down thirty years ago. 

In a country that is both democratic and socialistic, we might suspect that crafty politicians will run for office by promising more and more free stuff.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Jim Lakely in episode #192 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from Gallup, the National Center for Public Policy Research, and the National Review Institute.

Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution to the General Assembly stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous and despicable that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any public reference to or discussion of Hitler or his henchmen

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the new face of the progressive left, says she wants socialism as it is practiced in Norway and Sweden, not as it is or was practiced in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela.

It was in 1848 that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their epic work, Communist Manifesto, that has impacted so much of the world since that time,  but not in positive ways.

A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx.

The policy expressed in President Trump’s speech at the United Nations could be view strategically.

Very often bad and failed ideas do not die, they reappear during periods of crisis in different intellectual garb, and offer “solutions” that would help to bring about some of the very types of crises for which they once again claim to have the answers.

December 24, 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the formal end of the Soviet Union as a political entity on the map of the world.

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had haunted the globe since the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917, disintegrated from within and passed into the dustbin of history.