Tag: COMMUNISM

Yoani Sanchez is a 35-year-old Cuban dissident who regularly criticizes her country's communist regime on her blog, 'Generation Y.' Her outspoken writing has garnered plenty of awards and has been translated into 15 languages. But, since 2008, Generation Y has been blocked within her native Cuba. On Tuesday, however, the Cuban government suddenly re-established access to the blog, much to ...

Web surfers in China can finally use their very own version of Twitter -- as long as they use it to sing the praises of Mao. The new service, called 'Red Microblog,' is essentially a Twitter-like platform, devoted to Communist propaganda. According to the Telegraph, the site officially rolled out yesterday, and is run by a local propaganda department in the city of Chongqing. The typical news ...

When you're running an authoritarian regime that's hellbent on dictating the flow of information to its citizenry, how do you deal with an entity like Facebook, born in freedom-loving America? Why, you just build your own site, and ban the 'Book. Vietnam launched a trial version of Go.vn, the Communist version of the social network, back in May, but it's heavy emphasis on the lives of Ho Chi Minh ...

Apparently, Cuba's Castro family is much easier to fool than you would think. A couple of Miami DJs pranked former leader Fidel in 2003, and now, a Miami blogger and Cuban exile claims that he fooled Antonio Castro (pictured), Fidel's 40-year-old son, into believing that he was a female Colombian sportswriter -- posting the evidence online. According to BBC News, Antonio's blind spots are ladies ...

It must be sad when you spend all sorts of time and effort on something and no one notices for over 30 years. The woodcutters who created the massive tribute to Lenin have probably long since forgotten about their handiwork, which is a shame since only now is it being appreciated by a wider audience. The Telegraph reports that it was recently discovered by the blog EnglishRussia via Google ...