AT THE height of the communist insurgency in the 1970s, the life of residents in Kanowit, a riverside town about an hour’s drive from Sibu, had been turned upside down. Everybody then was living ...
About Sofia is filled with famous monuments from Bulgaria’s communist era, but there are also many secluded places that are easy to miss on your own. Ensure you see the recognizable and hidden sights, ...
Two or three years ago they used to go to vote, but now they can't go," says Ahmed. In Bulgaria's last election, in June, voter turnout stood at a record low, at just 34%. This Sunday's election ...
What the candidates are saying: Earlier this month, Steel released fliers accusing Tran of ties to communism, featuring his image alongside Mao Zedong and the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Chinese ...
1 A communist red star is removed from a factory ... 4 Hungarian crowds gather on the monument at the center of Budapest’s Heroes Square to protest Romania’s "rural systematization program." ...
At the conference convened this year in Sliven we established the Bulgarian Communist Workers' Party — the only revolutionary organization in our country. The conscious revolutionary-worker will ...
Mongolia and the GDR during 17:00 and 19:00 hours Information for the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party about the Talks between Comrades Todor Zhivkov and Kim Il Sung during the Visit ...
Photo credit: Shutterstock. Atop Bulgaria’s Buzludzha Peak sits a strange, UFO-like building that the Communist Party built and inaugurated in 1981. Buzludzha Monument is a striking example of ...
while the Cultural Revolution unleashed in China in May 1966 saw the systematic demolition of almost all monuments associated with pre-Communist China and its elites. These precedents were surely in ...
ofia is a bustling metropolis in Bulgaria, located in Southeast Europe. It reveals its rich history at every turn, each place and monument acting as a palimpsest of the city’s past. As one ...