Peaceful protest against injustice can take many forms. Very common is the gathering of a group, walking in concert through the streets with banners and shouting paroles. Writing letters, discussing the issue, protest songs, satirical video clips, pamphlets, the list goes on and on.
Recently I came across one of my favorite forms of protest: the [...]
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History would have looked different without mr. Joseph Stalin. Several massive events this man can write on his resume, like the Great Purge in the late thirties, during which at least 600,000 people where sentenced to death. And although quite considerable in number, this was just part of Stalin’s great labor: the Gulag camps, deathtraps [...]
Filed under: History, Politics by Cédric | Social tagging: Freedom of Press > Gulag > Katyn > Russia > slavery > Stalin > terror
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