Communism

China

Xi warns of 'rough seas' as China fetes 75 years of communist rule

Commemorations were also held in the former UK colony of Hong Kong and Portugal’s former territory of Macao, both of which returned to Chinese sovereignty in the late 1990s.

01/10/2024

Travel News

Could this abandoned Communist monument become a tourist attraction?

The UFO-shaped Buzludzha monument was abandoned after the fall of the Communist regime in Bulgaria.

21/09/2024

France

Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest at the Panthéon

Armenian-born poet and communist activist Manouchian was considered a hero among the French Resistance movement, which rose up against the Nazi occupation of France.

20/02/2024

Russia

Russian presidential hopeful banned from running in election

Yekaterina Duntsova has lost her Supreme Court appeal against authorities' refusal to register her for the race.

27/12/2023

Culture news

Did you know that Walt Disney was a spy for the FBI?

The FBI has worked for and against cultural figures throughout the 20th century... But you may not know that Walt Disney was a government spook...

10/11/2023

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Ukraine gives capital's Motherland monument a makeover

Ukraine is rehabilitating the Motherland monument in the capital, Kyiv, removing any reference to the Soviet era.

06/08/2023

Design

French architect and activist Roland Castro dies aged 82

A leading figure in the May 68 student protests, Castro was a proponent of architecture that improved the lives of the working classes.

10/03/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: A look back at this day in history

The beginning and the end of great thinkers. We take a look at today's significance for three revolutionaries: Karl Marx, Anne Frank and Malcolm X.

21/02/2023

Culture news

Was Chilean poet Pablo Neruda murdered? And if so by whom?

The famed Chilean writer and diplomat officially died of cancer just 12 days after a military coup. New evidence suggests that's not what actually killed him.

16/02/2023

Euronews Witness

Soviet-era monuments in Latvia: Should they stay, or should they go?

A debate is raging in Latvia following a law allowing the demolition of Soviet-era monuments. Do they represent political propaganda or sites of historical importance?

10/11/2022

Culture news

New Steinbeck essay on democracy published for first time in English

In 1954, the acclaimed American writer penned an essay on the dangers of McCarthyism for the French newspaper Le Figaro.

28/10/2022

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Poland rids itself of four communist-era monuments

Four concrete monuments have been dismantled in Poland in a renewed drive to remove symbols of Moscow’s post-World War II domination

27/10/2022

My Europe Series

How Gorbachev’s dream of liberal, European Russia failed

The death of the eighth and final president of the Soviet Union has sparked debates that are particularly relevant now when Russia is involved in the invasion of its western neighbour.

03/09/2022

Culture news

Calls for Armenian resistance fighter to enter French Pantheon

Missak Manouchian fought the Nazis after fleeing the Armenian Genocide for France in the 1910s, now some call for him to enter the French Pantheon.

25/04/2022

Design

How Poland’s communist-era churches rebelled against the regime

A remarkable record of individual design and craftsmanship, Poland's Communist-Era Churches pay homage to experimental forms that still wow today.

12/10/2021

My Europe Series

Why the Czechs have finally turned their back on communism

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia failed to win a seat in the Czech parliament for the first time in their history.

11/10/2021

France

Ban on National Bolshevik Party was 'a human rights violation'

Fifteen years after the case was first lodged, during which the founder died, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russian courts had not had a strong enough case to ban radical anti-Putin group the National Bolshevik Party.

14/09/2021

Slovakia

Slovakia: Parliament backs pension cuts for former communist officials

Slovakia just passed a new law that will reduce the high pensions received by Soviet-era apparatchiks.

23/06/2021

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Russian communists remember Stalin on the anniversary of his death

Russian communists on Friday remembered former leader Joseph Stalin as they marked the 68th anniversary of his death.

05/03/2021

Bulgaria

Restorers race to save communist-era memorial in Bulgaria

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the construction was abandoned and its works of art severely damaged by vandalism.

29/12/2020