Accuracy in Media

While the nation argues about football protests, its mainstream media outlets continue to try to rehabilitate the image of socialism. The New York Times ran a piece on Monday “How Did Women Fare in China’s Communist Revolution?” Author Helen Gao, whom The Times tells us is a “social policy analyst at a research company and a […]

Statues of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, and other related statues have been taken down this year. Photo by Ben Sutherland

The plan is to catalog and plan where to put the 300 monuments from the Soviet era. Photo by Jaap Arriens

#MayDay, or the celebration of all things socialist, is really not a day to celebrate:

Is this the old USSR coming back? Nearly 200 people died in police custody in Russia last year, according to a new journalism project, as Russian authorities continue to face accusations of abusing political prisoners and their own citizens. Journalist Maria Berezina founded the project “Russian Ebola” to monitor alarming reports about deaths at police stations, […]

Here’s what many Americans don’t learn in their history classes:

The parade marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and Russian president/dictator Vladimir Putin used it to blast the West.

This is Daniel Magay’s story of Communist Hungary under the Soviet Union: