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Photos of the author when she was young living in the USSR.

The Soviet Union: The Dream and the Reality

  • by Natallia I Teague
I grew up in the Soviet Union and experienced it firsthand. The system was founded on the dream of a worker’s paradise where all would share and every need would be met. So why did it fail?
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A young woman waits outside a building in Kurakhove, Eastern Ukraine.

The Russian Bear Reawakens

  • by Victor Kubik
Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine follow a long history of imperialist oppression. Are these events leading the world back to the brink of nuclear extinction?

The Euro and War

  • by Joel Meeker
Could Europe's new currency unit, the Euro, and the economic union behind it have unexpected and dangerous side effects? Could they even cause war?