Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; Former communist official Sergei Kirov is assassinated in Leningrad; Beatlemania arrives in America; Actor and director Woody Allen is born. (Dec. 1)
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China's president signed more than a dozen trade deals with communist ally Cuba. Raul Castro sang parts of a song about China and Mao Zedong, he learned while travelling the world in 1953.
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The Hmong have been persecuted since 1975 by the communist Lao PDR government and Vietnamese troops for their alliance with the United States in the U.S. Secret War during the Vietnam War. They were forced to live in the deep-remote jungles of Laos and starve. They have no other choices but to surrender.
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The 1950s were known for their ridiculous newsreels (you know, the anti-communist, pro-consumerism propaganda crap). But this one takes the cake ? it's a call for humans to join hands with the undead. Can you imagine? Directed by Daniel Austin.
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Putin praises Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his writing on Stalin's communist activities, despite fierce persecution for his anti-soviet criticism. Putin visits the author's home after presenting the award to Solzhenitsyn's wife at the Kremlin.
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Today, December 6th, Finland celebrates independence from the evil empire of communist Soviet Russia.
The world's best soprano singer Tarja Turunen performed live at the official Independence Day concert.
This is the first appearance which contains three short operatic songs in Swedish and Finnish.
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Hue was almost totally destroyed during fighting between the US and South Vietnamese against the Communist North Vietnamese, The Royal Palace was very badly damaged and refugees left the city having lost their homes.
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