Epstein Secrets

China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather

d to prison.5 • Public confessions: Humiliating public con- fessions of ideological crimes were a staple of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's purges and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China They were also employed by Eastern European sat- ellite regimes during the show trials of the late 1940s. A peculiarly

. That things were changing because of the wishes of their people, and because of machinations of the imperialists." —Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, June 2011 "It is hardly likely that the US will admit to manipulating (Hong Kong's) 'Occupy Central' movement, just as it will not admit to manip

non than Iran. Millions died from forced famine and purges in Stalin's Soviet Union, and tens of millions perished during the Great Leap Forward in Mao Tse-tung's EFTA00630422 China. China's development of a nuclear weapon (it tested its first one in 1964) seemed all the more alarming at the time because of

EFTA00630422 China. China's development of a nuclear weapon (it tested its first one in 1964) seemed all the more alarming at the time because of Mao's openly professed belief that his country could lose half its population in a nuclear war and still come out victorious over capitalism. But deter

The twenty-first century began with a fraudulent Presidential election. And this is in the luckiest of nations. Elsewhere—in Russia, in Hungary, in Zimbabwe—the fragility of democratic aspiration is a brutal fact of history. To revisit the Arab Spring, one year later, is to celebrate popular awakening

theid regime in the 1970s and 1980s. Even during the worst days of McCarthyism, there was nothing like this even directed at Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China. And there was nothing like this directed at the German Nazi regime or the Italian Fascist regime in the 1930s. The hatred directed at Israe

niers, and disincentivized the Palestinians from negotiating a reasonable two-state solution. How dare states such as Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, Bahrain, Syria, Belarus and other tyrannies too numerous to mention -- but if you want to see the list, just go over to the next building -- r

In China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as th

ead. That things were changing because of the wishes of their people, and because of machinations of the imperialists.” —Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, June 2011 “It is hardly likely that the US will admit to manipulating [Hong Kong's] ‘Occupy Central’ movement, just as it will not admit to manip-

ing outright censorship, brought to bear on Russian historians during Soviet times and more recently during the Putin era. China: Evading the past Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward ranks among the most deadly politically inspired catastrophes in human history. From 1958 to 1962, Communist Party authorities, u

ficials have refused to acknowledge anything approaching the full dimen- sions of the tragedy. Nor have they admitted that the party, and especially Mao, were responsible. Often they blame the weather. There are no official monu- ments to the victims, no days of commemoration, no serious histories ava