The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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From socialism and terrorism to feces and urine
If you thought that the streets of San Francisco drowning in human excrement were bad enough and a disincentive to visit, you’ve seen – and smelled – nothing yet, as …
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The left – always getting the walls wrong
Yesterday we remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone, including The Daily Chrenk, has been excited about it, and now Italy’s Democratic Party is joining …
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Where were you when the walls came crashing down
It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …
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The Ys are a lost cause but with the Zs there is hope
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. I blogged previously about the …
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China – not quite 70 for 70
People’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …
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Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy
I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …
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Why the children’s crusades
Question asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …
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The Fourth Partition
It’s 2019, so over the next few years we will commemorate a number of 80th anniversaries connected with the Second World War. British people will be reminded of their darkest …
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In Liu of answers
I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she’s got any compromising relationship with the Chinese communist authorities and their numerous overseas …
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The two “what if”s of September 1939
Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south, starting World War Two. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the …
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Don’t ban the sickle, hammer the wearers
Should red stars, hammers-and-sickles and other communist symbols be banned by retailers? Lithuania thinks so: Lithuania has urged American online retailer Amazon to stop selling clothing featuring the hammer and …
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The great Chinese take away
“The Atlantic” has a very long and a very good article about the Chinese espionage in America (you can imagine the situation is not dissimilar in other countries of interest): Donald …
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Russia tries to normalise Ribbentrop-Molotov
The other day the world (mostly Eastern Europe and a few history buffs) remembered to 80th anniversary of the signing in Moscow of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact between the …
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There is no Monopoly like a Socialist Monopoly
I confess I never really got into “Monopoly”. The game struck me as long and tedious and teaching the wrong messages about the economy. Or maybe it was just my …
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Honk for Honkers
When I visited Hong Kong three years ago, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was still under construction, with pylons lined up along the existing road from the airport to the city still …
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China – a friend or a fowl?
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …
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One such day
Seventy-five years ago, late afternoon on 1 August 1944, the biggest single act of resistance in the Nazi occupied Europe commenced in Warsaw. The Uprising was to last two month, …
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Socialism and crystal energy
Jessica Roy at “LA Times” writes an interesting piece on “How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals”. To be fair to Gen Ys, they are of course not the …
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