Czech Author and Anti-Communist Dissident Ivan Klíma Dies at 94
Ivan Klíma, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died.

Ivan Klíma, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the graves of Soviet soldiers buried at Fort Richardson Memorial Cemetery in Alaska, following private talks with President Donald Trump that lasted about three hours.

Gen. Rudzani Maphwanya, chief of the South African National Defense Force, met in Tehran with his opposite number, Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami.

Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

The Communist Party of Russia on Thursday unveiled a bust of brutal dictator Josef Stalin in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol.

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it’s a … Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s now hurtling in an uncontrolled descent back to Earth, possibly landing anywhere on the planet within the first two weeks of May.

Vice President JD Vance said, while discussing Angel Studios’ recently debuted documentary series “Live Not By Lies,” that the key to combating totalitarianism is to speak the truth.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told an Italian newspaper last weekend that it was “absolutely stupid, illogical, and very irresponsible” for the leaders of his country to give up their nuclear weapons in the 1990s.

Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989.

An affidavit in the criminal complaint against alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh indicates he had an SKS rifle with him, according to reports.

Renowned actor Dennis Quaid exudes the spirit, humanity, and warmth of the great President Ronald Reagan in the upcoming biopic.

Kamala Harris has come up with economic ideas so awful even the pro-Kamala media are ripping them as “gimmicks” and “not sensible.”

The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) compared the Trump business records trial to the “sham trial” the old Soviet Union used against “political opponents.”

Ukrainians marked the 38th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster with memorials on Friday.

UK has reverse-engineered old Soviet designs from tank parts and documents held in museums to keep Ukraine’s army going.

Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Thursday that he is improving.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that while he views the

The United States should ‘encourage’ Germany to work towards an agreement on Second World War damages with Poland, Rep. Chris Smith has said.

Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising that was brutally crushed by the Soviet dictatorship.

Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, widely considered the worst event of its kind in human history, on Wednesday, condemning Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country and accusing it of using nuclear threats to “blackmail” the world.

The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow delighted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the West over Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump will “weather this storm” no matter what the “criminal Biden-Stalinist regime” does to him, proclaimed conservative radio legend Michael Savage.

The European Union’s green agenda-inspired war against farmers is turning the bloc into the “EUSSR”, an MEP has warned.

A nuclear-armed Russia “cannot lose” the current war, and any ceding of territory would lead to a “civil war,” according to Russian ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin, also known as “Putin’s brain” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world,” who described the West as the “source of absolute evil.”

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day. Hours later, they’ve reached 60.

Business Secretary Grant Shapps caused controversy after posting an image of himself with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson airbrushed out.

A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died.

The European Parliament voted on Thursday to recognise the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 — frequently known as the Holodomor — as a state-sponsored genocide committed by Soviet Russia.

Right here, right now, dare we dream that the Chinese people are waking up from their totalitarian history to defy the CCP and to tear down their wall? The answer is: Yes, we can dream, and sometimes, as in 1989, dreams do come true.

Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has claimed that bigwigs within the European Union will “end up” facing the same fate as Soviet dictators of old.

A leading Belarusian political activist has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for opposing President Alexander Lukashenko´s regime.

Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government who masterminded state propaganda and censorship has died.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III stated that his concerns are “China, China, China.” And that China is “more severe of a competitor than the Soviet Union was.” Co-host Gayle King asked, “What do
The Kremlin’s refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its uneasiness about the legacy of Gorbachev, who has been venerated worldwide for bringing down the Iron Curtain but reviled by many at home for the Soviet collapse and the ensuing economic meltdown that plunged millions into poverty.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday chose to eulogize Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, by calling him “naive and immature” for “cozying up” to the Western world instead of using an iron fist to hold his empire together.

The New York Times continues its long history of whitewashing communists by carrying a torch for Mikhail Gorbachev and leaving the other side of the story in the dark.
