Lenin was a childhood idol of mine. Source: TIME Magazine Some thoughts and recollections on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. During my Upper Primary and High School years, I was an unabashed communist, though I was, and still am reluctant to admit it. I was not associated with the “Party” in any capacity whatsoever, but I am still immensely ashamed of my naivete. Looking back, if I had paid enough attention to what I was reading, I could have figured out how

This post is a personal commentary on the space race and the consequences and results from it. It is intended to understand the nature of the space race and the motivations of the space race. Part I The progress in Scientific understanding and knowledge of the world over the course of the last two hundred years have been truly impressive and has led to much progress in the state of mankind. A V-2 Replica. Modern rocket science can be traced to the pioneering work of German Sc

Sergei Eisenstein, the celebrated Russian Director was blackmailed into marrying by the Soviet authorities. A small essay examining the laws and general treatment of homosexuals and homosexuality in the Soviet Union. I have only covered the Pre-World War II era. However, as noted below, the injunction by the state against homosexuality continued to exist through out the lifetime of the USSR. In modern day Russia as well, homosexuals and homosexuality is repressed. Homosexuali