She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.
Tag: Communism (Theory and Philosophy)
José Antonio Kast Elected President of Chile
José Antonio Kast has promised to reverse Chile’s recent surge in violent crime. He also says he will deport undocumented migrants.
José Antonio Kast Elected President of Chile
José Antonio Kast won the race on Sunday after a contest marked by concerns over security and immigration.
Dominik Duka, Czech Cardinal Jailed Under Communism, Dies at 82
While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome.
Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100
As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.
Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76
First in Warsaw and later from Paris, he supplied anti-Communist activists in Poland with steady stream of leaflets, newsletters and banned books.
Fatos Nano, Albanian Leader in Era of Chaos and Transition, Dies at 73
A political survivor during his country’s shift from brutal communist regime to flawed democracy, he served three stints as prime minister.
The Communist Warrior Stranded for Decades in an ‘American Colony’
Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return to the North to die.
Why Does Xi Keep Purging Loyalists? Look to Stalin and Mao for the Answer.
China’s “bedside eavesdroppers,” the online posse parsing rumors for power shifts, have a lot to work with as Xi Jinping pushes aside his own political appointees.
Ion Iliescu, Who Steered Romania After Revolution, Dies at 95
As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power.