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The sole working Antonov-225 Cossack was confirmed lost but — perhaps remarkably — the Ukrainian government has vowed to rebuild. 

Wolfgang Schwanitz, the former head of Communist East-Germany’s infamous secret police, the Stasi, has died aged 91.

The Ukrainian Catholic Bishop for Britain said this week that Vladimir Putin’s interest in Ukraine stems from his desire to bring back the Soviet Union.

Michael Savage said Biden is “wagging the dog” by entering into a potentially major conflict with Russia and the U.S. has “zero national interest” in Ukraine.

Lawmakers from Russia’s nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) on Monday submitted a bill that would declare the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to be “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century.”

In an interview airing on Russian state media Sunday, Vladimir Putin waxed nostalgic for the Soviet empire, describing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 as the death of “historical Russia.”

A Chinese company called Beijing Skyrizon Aviation Industry Investment announced a $4.5 billion lawsuit against the Ukrainian government on Monday, posing a significant legal and financial menace to Kyiv even as Russian military pressure builds along the eastern border.

Boris Johnson quoted communist dictator Vladimir Lenin to promote his Build Back Better green agenda in a speech on Monday.

The Democrats wanted to put all questions of Saule Omarova’s ties to communism off the table as xenophobic “Red baiting.” Senator Kennedy was not deterred.

Cornell Univerity Professor Saule Omarova is President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee banking despite her radical academic writings.

Viktor Orbán drew battle lines against the Hungarian left, their international backers in the European Union and foreign press, and Big Tech in a passionate, wide-ranging speech commemorating the 1956 uprising against the country’s then-communist puppet government.

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s pick as Comptroller of the Currency, previously authored a thesis on Marxism, the only copy of which has reportedly been destroyed by Moscow State University.

“We are small but we are tough,” a Lithuanian MP has told Breitbart News after Communist China recalled its ambassador from the country.

Lithuania will not be “intimidated” by China on its decision to open a de facto Taiwanese embassy, a leading MP has told Breitbart News.

Modern history provides troubling proof that loss of liberty is preceded by disarmament of citizens. This week, the most obvious example is right before our eyes as we watch the Cuban people pleading for freedom. 

A flag of the Soviet Union (USSR), a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and other material was found at the home of an arrested man.

“Demonising vaccine ‘refuseniks’ is pointless and wrong,” argues a piece in Reaction. But this is what is happening in Britain right now: the Boris Johnson administration’s powerful propaganda machine is ramping up the pressure to get the entire country vaccinated and vaccine “refuseniks” are in the government’s crosshairs.

Ukraine marked the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster Monday, remembering those lost attempting to contain the eruption of nuclear waste at the meltdown site and seeking a rightful place in history for the still-irradiated region destroyed by the incident.

Just as Jimmy Carter was played by the Soviet Union in the SALT II agreement, Joe Biden is getting played by China in his climate agreement.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday offered support to Russia and its authoritarian ruler, Vladimir Putin, musing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a “geopolitical disaster” for which the West has never offered Moscow sufficient condolences.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote a Fox News op-ed Monday morning titled “Don’t boycott China Olympics — US tried this before and here’s who was hurt the most,” arguing Americans would only hurt themselves by boycotting the Beijing Olympics.

The Atlantic claimed that Republicans —  like the last Soviet-era holdouts in the Kremlin — are “growing more aggressive and paranoid” as the “dying” Republican Party is described as “more of a danger to the United States than to the world.”

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán believes it is the “calling” of Europe’s conservative former Soviet satellite states to bring their “uncompromising” tradition of anti-communism into the “common store” of Western values.

Prosecutors in Russia confirmed this week that they would investigate a Russian state circus performance involving a monkey dressed as a Nazi and goats wearing swastikas.

There was once a Democrat Congressman and a Democrat aide who spied for a communist country, and a Democrat president who took action.

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the European Union of wielding a “propaganda bludgeon” against his country like the communist regime of old. 

MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Azerbaijan is promising that Christian churches will be protected when the strongly Muslim country takes possession of areas formerly controlled by Armenians.

KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan (AP) — In a bitter farewell to his home of 21 years, Garo Dadevusyan wrenched off its metal roof and prepared to set the stone house on fire. Thick smoke poured from houses that his neighbours had already torched before fleeing this ethnic Armenian village about to come under Azerbaijani control.

On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien argued that China poses a “much stronger challenge or threat” over the long term to the United States than the Soviet Union did. O’Brien said, “I think China presents a

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he could work with Joe Biden in a new administration, citing common ground he shared with the Democrats over a shared embrace of Soviet ideology.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has pushed back on claims that conservative-led Central European countries defying Brussels on migrant quotas and other globalist policies survive on EU funds, saying simply: “Like hell we do!”

Security forces in Belarus said they arrested 32 Russian “mercenaries” near the capital city of Minsk on Wednesday for allegedly trying to disrupt the nation’s August 9 presidential elections, Voice of America (VOA) reported Thursday.

Joe Biden has accepted the Soviet model — the ceremonial head of state in office; the masses embroiled in constant revolution in the streets; the commissars behind the scenes issuing threats and quietly suppressing criticism and opposition.

“Progressive” ideology always rests on a conviction that the current “regressive” system is comprehensively unjust and must be destroyed by exploiting its weaknesses. The most famous proponent of such tactics in recent years has been the late Saul Alinksy, the intellectual godfather of the modern Democrat Party, but former Soviet journalist and KGB informant Yuri Bezmenov laid out an even more concise strategy for subversion in a 1984 interview.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that President Trump will make several announcements over the coming days that acknowledge the threat to the U.S. and the security of the American people that is posed by the Chinese Communist Party and said, “This is like the days of the Soviet Union. This is a Communist, tyrannical regime that poses real risks to the United States.”

China’s state newspaper China Daily – typically one of the least belligerent in the stable of Communist Party-run outlets – published a column Thursday claiming that America had a history of “bacteriological warfare” to imply the possibility the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was created by the U.S. military.