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Category Archives: communism
The Unseen USSR: Soviet Soldier On Leave
The photo below is a wonderfully candid image of what appears to be a Soviet soldier returning home on leave. I acquired it from a seller in the former Lithuanian SSR who specializes in Soviet-era antiques and ephemera. There are … Continue reading
Posted in communism, Russia, USSR, zilch
Tagged communism, found photos, Lithuanian SSR, Opel, Soviet Army, USSR
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The Unseen USSR: Red Square, 1978
It’s the perfect marriage of my appreciation for Soviet-era ephemera and “found photos”: I have acquired a number of old 35 mm slides of photos by various and sundry unnamed world travelers, taken during the 1970s and 1980s. The collections I … Continue reading
Mother Teresa at the grave of Enver Hoxha
Every so often, I get a weird idea and can’t get it out of my head until I arrive on a proper resolution. A fine example of this was the time I watched the Christopher Hitchens’ 1994 quasi-documentary Hell’s Angel. … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Enver Hoxha
Tagged Albania, atheism, Brett Marcus Cook, Catholicism, Christopher Hitchens, communism, Enver Hoxha, Joseph Stalin, Mother Teresa
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Between Catholicism and Marxism
For much of the 20th century, the Catholic Church and the worldwide communist movement were pitted against one another, portrayed as natural enemies by the highest echelons of the Church hierarchy, including the virulently anti-communist Pope John Paul II. It … Continue reading →