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communism

[kom-yuh-niz-uhm] / ˈkɒm yəˌnɪz əm /


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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

Yet his views on communism are surprisingly sympathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 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

In Moscow, Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke with equal conviction about the advantages of communism and the Soviet system.

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




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