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…in May 1945, the United States and the USSR had become divided over the political future of Poland. Stalin, whose forces had driven the Germans out of Poland in 1944 and 1945 and established a pro-communist provisional government there, believed that Soviet…

…his grip over the countries of Eastern Europe that the red army had entered during the last year of the war. This was achieved in the way that coalition governments were set up that consisted of both Communist and democratic parties but the key posts tended…

…in fear of being accused of doing witchcraft. Another example of this occurred during the early 1950's. Joseph McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin. He gained worldwide attention by saying that Communists have gained access to the government. He conducted…

…of economic theories derived from his reinterpretation of the writings of such early political economists such as Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo. In most versions of the communist utopia, everyone would be expected to co-operate enthusiastically…

…of the Communist Party, here represented by the pigs' emergence as the animals in charge of the farm. The struggle for power between Trotsky and Stalin, here represented by the struggle between the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, which, as with Trotsky, leads to Snowball's…

…Witch Hunts: Salem and McCarthyism Imagine what it would be like to be labeled a Communist for the mere fact that you happened to sport a goatee? It happened in the 1950’s McCarthyism period! Doesn’t this sound strangely similar to the Salem witch…

…, but these occasionally contain some inaccuracies. But it is known that the first Soviet bomb was built with the help of a spy, Klaus Fuchs.                  Klaus Fuchs was born on December 29, 1911 in Russelsheim, Germany. He was a Communist, and the Communist…

…and provided workers in Germany with cheap holidays so that he could control every part of people's lives, even their leisure time. Hitler's principal obstacle was communism, and the communist popularity was rising. In order to dispose of some of his communist…

…absent from this one. The Vietnam War was fought between 1959 and 1970. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. This struggle quickly widened…

…defended hundreds of victims of torture here in China, said the Communist party was responsible for more deaths than the Nazis, but the West (as shown most recently by Google and Microsoft) will connive with such evil just to make a buck just like Bush's grandpa…