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RibMol1
Politics

Russia criminalises history – again

September 3, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

People often ask me why I pick on Russia. OK, no one actually asks me that, and in any case in the ranking of all the things I pick on …

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HK1
Politics

Capitalism, big and small

August 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Lung Wo Road and Connaught Road Central reach for the sky. The ground erupts here with steel and glass and stone buildings that tower 20, 40, 60 storeys over the …

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HK
Life / Politics

(Non-censored) postcard from Hong Kong

August 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As you drive on the highway from the airport to Hong Kong, about half way you pass by massive concrete pylons of what, when finished, will be the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau …

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RibMol
Politics

Happy Ribbentrop-Molotov, mother******s!

August 24, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday we remembered the 77th anniversary of the most cynical political event of the 20th century, the pact between Hitler and Stalin, which partitioned the Eastern Europe and greenlit the …

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figes
Politics

The October that never ends

August 21, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Books that deserve the epitaph “masterpiece” come few and far between. “A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924” by a British historian Orlando Figes deserves it without a doubt. I’m …

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kurd
Politics

It’s time for a Kurdish state

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is perhaps the greatest travesty of the Middle Eastern geo-politics, if not the international geo-politics, that the Kurds don’t have their own state. It is a travesty because apart …

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youngputin
Politics

The return of dezinformatsiya

August 19, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The general rule of thumb is that, contrary to what folk wisdom might have taught you, you not only look the Russian gift horse in a mouth, but you also …

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IMG_3299
Life / Politics

I was a young communist

August 18, 2016May 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Time for a terrible confession: I was a young communist. The only things I can put up in my defence are: I was 6 years old, and only for less …

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warsaw2
Life / Politics

How the Poles saved the Western civilisation

August 15, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Ninety-six years ago, the Poles saved Europe, and I bet most of you don’t even know about it. On 14-15 August 1920, newly-formed Soviet Red Army, commanded by the legendary …

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castro
Politics

Happy birthday Fidel

August 14, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Dear Fidel Can I call you Fidel? We haven’t met, but I feel like I know you quite well, or at least your ilk. I’m normally more formal and respectful …

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siberia
Life / Politics

In defence of Tsarist repression (well, sort of, not quite)

August 13, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One day, when I’m rich and famous, I’m going to set up the Daily Chrenk Foundation to train journalists who write stories and sub-editors who write the headlines to know …

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Warsaw44-08
Life / Politics

The Warsaw Uprising, lest we forget

August 2, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Every year, on August the 1st, the whole of Warsaw comes to a standstill at the W-Hour, 5pm, the start of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Pedestrians stop, streets turn …

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4July
Life / Politics

Happy birthday America, and please pick up your act

July 4, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 240th anniversary of the original Brexit. Despite some initial reasonable showing from the Remain campaign, the Leave folk did eventually manage …

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rhiannonsmall
Politics

Campaigning with communists

June 29, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Thank you, Huffington Post Australia, for publishing a lovely fluff piece about “a day on the campaign trail” with Australia’s most disgusting politician, the Greens’ NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon. As …

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reagan-brandenburg-142422778
Life / Politics

Happy 29th birthday, “Tear down this Wall!”

June 12, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Twenty-nine years ago today – when America had a real president and the Free World a real leader: As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment …

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bernie
Politics

Does socialism work? Asking for a friend

June 8, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Young kids come to me on the street these days and ask: “Hey, Arthur, you were born and grew up in a communist country, didn’t you? So tell us, does …

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1989
Life / Politics

Ballots and bullets: Poland and China, 27 years on

June 6, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

On June 4, 1989, two communist countries on opposite sides of the world chose different paths to the future. In Poland, the first round of democratic parliamentary elections was held, …

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coffee-communism_0
Culture / Life / Politics

On first dates and communist restaurants

June 3, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …

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