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…responsibility, Bigger signs the note with the communist symbol of a hammer and sickle. Bigger possesses few good qualities. He is an anti-hero. He commits rape, extorts the dead girl's parents, robs, and kills innocent people. He is not a simple victim…

…Vietnam - A Different Kind Of War The war in Vietnam was a different kind of war. The two sides fighting were South and North Vietnam. The North, who was made up of communists, was called the Vietcong or the VC. During the war, it was really hard…

…and labor movements. In the mid-50s when McCarthyism became widespread (the theory that communists lived among us and had infiltrated the government), one of the members of the Weavers, Pete Seeger, was accused of being a communist, their band was forced…

…with the communists to stay alive. Later on Fugui was forced to join the Nationalist army and once again he was forced to leave everything behind. He had to live through the frigid Chinese winter. Much of the army froze to death but fortunately Fugui and his friends…

…of awards for bravery but never ranked higher than corporal. In 1918, when Germany finally surrendered, Hitler was very upset. He believed that it was the Jews and the Communists who betrayed the "fatherland", and it was at this time that his hatred…

…himself in 1912. Around this time, “warlords” took over China controlling it and ruining its economy. The author moves on to war that involved China and its neighbors. It describes the Communist Revolution and Mao Zedong, an the “Autumn Harvest.” The author…

…-- that soldiers reluctantly leave their families to face a world of destruction and possibly death. Auden compares the sacrifice of "white flower-garlanded heifers" to a communist-style government with "bored officials" bounding men to posts driven in the ground…

…that it has reached emergency levels. Afghanistan was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1979. The USSR was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti- communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan…

…, 'red listed' Hollywood actors and blue collar workers alike, causing employers to shun them. Labor unions and strikes were blamed on communists while traditional fundamentalism was reinforced. This time period also came with the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan…

…. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist…