Thursday January 24 In the summer of 1988 Kirsi Liimatainen, 20, along with 3 other Finns, goes to the International Wilhelm Pieck College in the German Democratic Republic. The college teaches socialist doctrine for students from 80 different countries. Liimatainen was in the last cohort- the Berlin Wall came down a year later, followed by […]
Thursday January 10 When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960,Patrice Lumumba at 36, became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state. He became a lightening rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium & the United States. Made in the […]
Tuesday November 20: The YOUNG KARL MARX At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile.In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the […]
