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Europe 2 years ago
Russia communist asks for probe into West's possible involvement in Stalin's death
"The party appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB with a request to check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin," RIA cited the chairman of the party, Sergei Malinkovich as saying.
Academia 3 years ago
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Reexamining blame in the 1965 tragedy, beyond the PKI and Sukarno
The 1965 tragedy is a complex historical context continues to resonate today, and acknowledging past wrongs is the way to move past one of the darkest periods in Indonesian history so the country can heal.
Academia 3 years ago
Stop using communist slander against presidential candidates
This month has been unusually quiet compared to Septembers past in terms of reanimating the old specter of communism; perhaps we can hope that the 2024 campaign season will be free of such dirty tactics so we can finally allow our democracy to tread the path toward maturity.
Politics 3 years ago
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Indonesia starts reparations program for victims of past atrocities
Jokowi in January expressed deep regret over 12 deadly events from 1965-2003 which include a purge by the military of suspected communists and their sympathisers, during which at least 500,000 people were killed and more than a million jailed, according to historians and activists.
Americas 3 years ago
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Was Pablo Neruda poisoned? Chile awaits new report on the poet's death
The latest expert report, presented to a court on Wednesday, will be reviewed by judges in closed hearings ahead of a legally binding ruling on the poet's death in 1973 shortly before the Pinochet dictatorship came to power.
Society 3 years ago
Jokowi says regrets past rights abuses in country
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Wednesday expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country's past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s.
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