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From Catalan separatists to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, the human chain that helped the Baltic states win independence from the Soviet Union three decades...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the city of Sopron Monday to commemorate a pivotal moment in the fall...
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When Hungary’s former leader Miklos Nemeth first started poking a hole through the Iron Curtain in 1989, he had no idea how quickly his...
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Jan Palach was a student activist who burnt himself to death 50 years ago this week to protest at the Soviet-led occupation of then...
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Engineer Eugeniu Iordachescu, who devised an ingenious method to save Romanian churches threatened with destruction during the communist era, has died aged 89, the...
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The Communist International, or the Komintern as it was known in Russia, was born a century ago in the wake of World War I,...
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Perched like a vast flying saucer on a central Bulgarian mountainside, Buzludzha is a brutalist concrete monument that was built to glorify communism nearly...
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Polish President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a law introduced by the governing conservatives that paved the way for communist-era officers to be demoted....
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Review: ‘Animal Farm’ ditches clever Orwellian satire for broad comedy (Includes first-hand account)
It’s clear from Soulpepper‘s new stage adaptation of Animal Farm, which opened on Thursday, that director Ravi Jain and playwright Anthony MacMahon also saw...