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How to Stop Communism in America
Communism once seemed a foreign threat to the United States — an ideology from distant revolutions, fought abroad in the Cold War. Today, this…
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Communism once seemed a foreign threat to the United States — an ideology from distant revolutions, fought abroad in the Cold War. Today, this…
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The Soviet Union lasted less than seventy years, from its formal creation in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, yet no state of the…
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Socialism is usually told as a foreign story, imported from Europe and imposed on America from outside. The American past tells a different story.…
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Jack Barsky is not a man who read about the Cold War in a book. He lived it, under a false name, in a…
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This video asks a question that has shaped United States policy toward Cuba for more than sixty years: should the United States end its…
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Official histories of the Cuban Revolution are usually written from the top down. They describe decisions, decrees, and speeches, and they present the revolution…
This video takes up the same question as the earlier post on Sanders's communist misadventures, but from a different angle: not the history itself,…
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On June 13, 1988, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, sat down in front of local reporters to talk about a trip he had just…
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When Bernie Sanders ran for president, his opponents did not begin with his tax plan or his health care plan. They began with his…
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This video looks back at Bernie Sanders's long history of praise for socialist governments and movements, long before he became a nationally known presidential…
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The most widely shared interview in the history of this site is not a lecture, and it is not a documentary. It is a…
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In this edition of American Thought Leaders, host Jan Jekielek speaks with Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, about…
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On October 27, 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than at any other moment in history, and the decisive confrontation did not…
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On the evening of 22 October 1962, President John F. Kennedy spoke to the American people on television and revealed what the United States…
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Day thirteen of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Sunday 28 October 1962, was the day the world stepped back from the edge. After almost two…
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Day twelve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Saturday 27 October 1962, became known as Black Saturday, the most dangerous day of the entire crisis.…
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Day eleven of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Friday 26 October 1962 — was the day the question in the title hung over Washington:…
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Day ten of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Thursday 25 October 1962 — took the confrontation to the United Nations, in one of the…
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Day nine of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Wednesday 24 October 1962 — was the day the naval blockade, or quarantine, actually began. This…
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Day seven of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Monday 22 October 1962 — was the day the United States announced a blockade of Cuba.…
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Day eight of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Tuesday 23 October 1962 — was the day both leaders had to face reality. This episode…
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Day six of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Sunday 21 October 1962 — was the day President Kennedy had to choose. This episode follows…
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Day five of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Saturday 20 October 1962 — was the day President Kennedy seriously considered war. This episode follows…
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Day four of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Friday 19 October 1962 — was the day the scale of the Soviet threat became clear.…