Communism
What are the effects of Communism?
In Chapter 11...
Malala explains that her father carries a poem in his pocket by Martin Niemöller Why do you believe he carries this poem?
Martin Niemöller
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Where did communism first begin?
Published in 1848, what is the big deal about this book?
The Working Class began to LOVE the idea that Everyone could be EQUAL.... Bolsheviks & Communist parties began!
Russian Revolution - 1917
Women workers fighting for equality
Vladimir Lenin
Read the book by Karl Marx & begins implementing ideas in Russia!
Czar Nicholas II abdicates from the Throne!
There is a change in politics & the TSAR (Emperor) Nicholas is overthrown!
Joseph Stalin "seizes" power by making people believe Lenin gave it to him... He becomes PREMIER over the Soviet Union.
After PURGING people in government... Stalin begins to have TOTAL CONTROL -- TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM -- and uses "Communism" to his advantage.
How does the United States feel about communism... and the Soviet Union?
Anti Communist Propaganda
This Propaganda Cartoon was created in 1948 as we enter the "Cold War" as well as many comics and Propaganda pictures.
What happens in 1979?
COLD WAR tensions RISE!
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