communism
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The author emphasizes that by the 1950s, approximately 90% of Cuba’s mines were owned by U.S. companies, demonstrating a longstanding pattern of American economic domination that predated the rise of Fidel Castro and communism.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
“There was a time,” he says, “when communism was plausible, with its industrialization, with factories, with machines.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state John Foster Dulles urged Eastern European nations in the mid-1950s to rise up against Soviet occupation by announcing a policy of “liberation” and “rollback” of communism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
Motivations included fighting communism and protecting U.S. business interests.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2026
Secretary Baker was making his first visit to see this crumbled monument to Soviet communism.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Vocabulary lists containing communism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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