The New Communists
It’s 2017. Time to stop worrying about the questions of 1917.
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Nothing catches the eye like gold set against red. And in the great war of the twentieth century, the color scheme was on both sides of the divide — the Soviet hammer and sickle, McDonald’s golden arches. At its peak, some variation of the USSR’s flag flew over 20 percent of the Earth’s habitable landmass. But while […]