communism

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The author emphasizes that by the 1950s, approximately 90% of Cuba’s mines were owned by U.S. companies, demonstrating a longstanding pattern of American economic domination that predated the rise of Fidel Castro and communism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

“There was a time,” he says, “when communism was plausible, with its industrialization, with factories, with machines.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Since the fall of communism 35 years ago, Poland has transformed itself from a command economy notorious for rationed goods and empty store shelves to one of the engines of European growth.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state John Foster Dulles urged Eastern European nations in the mid-1950s to rise up against Soviet occupation by announcing a policy of “liberation” and “rollback” of communism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

And now communism, the only way of life he had ever known, seemed on the verge of total collapse.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau