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French artist Marc Ahr skates along St. Petersburg's frozen canals and removes the garbage, but this is only a small part of what he does in Russia's northern capital, and the locals are awfully puzzled.

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"You know, he could be the city's symbol, if he isn't already," a St. Petersburg musician tells me. We've known each other for five minutes and are watching together as Marc, a Frenchman, skates along the frozen Griboedov Canal.

Marc pins garbage with a lance he made and tries to throw it into a basket that he wears like a backpack. The basket has a sign, "Spb Eco Cleaner." He misses sometimes, but the children are nevertheless ecstatic. One ruddy woman stops in perplexity and exclaims, "It's that foreigner who picks up garbage from the frozen canals!" The locals think Marc's idea is bizarre but entertaining, and his ecological project is becoming popular.

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Marc is actually quite extravagant. He looks like an expat gone mad with loads of free time. Its not that in St. Petersburg no one thinks of ecology, but no one goes into the canals to pick up garbage, making a spectacle out of it by using a lance in the form of a hammer and sickle.

I met Marc Ahr, the "famous artist," as he calls himself, when he splendidly lowered his hands into a street trash bin and smiling, fished out his booty - cardboard. Then he took us to his yard where he has a "garden" - a collection of dozens of plastic bottles, spruce needles, eggshells, corks, banana peels and many other things.

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Honestly speaking, it looks like a private sorted-out dump. Some of his neighbors actually think so. "People always think that I'm a bit crazy, a madman, but what can you do?" he laughs.

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"I give these metal cans to my grandmother, who hands them in for recycling and uses the money to buy medicine."

"And what's the bag with the spruce needles and shells for?"

"It will be compost! I'll take it to the dacha."

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Marc believes that garbage is not garbage, but is either art or something that can be reused. This winter he made a series of pictures out of ice. He also keeps them in the yard, wrapped in fiberglass and plywood so that the February sun does not melt them. His favorite is the one with the cigarette butts screwed into the ice. In above-zero-degree temperature they have soaked, blackened and are now sadly hanging. There is a similar work with multicolored plastic corks.

"In France, you can get 190 euros for a ton of such corks. But here no one needs them," Marc says with disappointment. "And I love ice, because it is not eternal, like our planet."

Photo: Ruslan Shamukov/RBTH

Suddenly, a woman walks out into the yard. She is one of those bothered by the "ecological" neighbor. They dislike each other because she "does not pay her rent." Marc is offended by this. She thinks that she is allowed to do more than others. But she cannot; it is not communistic behavior.

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At home he has Bolshevik symbols in the form of a mosaic made of pieces of the Berlin Wall. It hangs in the most noticeable place and separates the living room with the spruces hanging from the ceiling, the "responsible" coffee under the piano cover and the glass samovars.

"I've wanted to do something with this Berlin Wall for a long time. And who spent the money to build it? The Communists, to protect themselves from Capitalism."

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Marc went to Berlin a week after the Wall fell, and he began taking it apart by pieces, placing them into packages with the label,"Fragment of the Berlin Wall, original." For his first four hours on the Wall and the pictures about the experience he earned $500 in France. A couple of years later he became so rich that he went to Russia and bought a 230-square meter apartment. He paid tribute, so to say, to his Russian roots.

I ask him when Communism will come to Russia.

"No, it's still too early. You are only going through the first stage of Capitalism. Karl Marx said that Communism would arrive only after Capitalism, no sooner."

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He has turned his apartment into his own micro-communist state in which each guest pays for a room based on his income: some pay 20 euros, and others pay 120 euros. For now the model works, everyone is happy and he intends to go to France for a while to get involved in politics, to get rid of corporate lobbyists and unite Russia with Europe.

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"I want people to understand that Russia is nothing to be scared about. The fact that we have one road was already demonstrated by Alexander II and Peter the Great. You even have the Napoleon cake! You have oil, and we in France have intelligent people. You have really beautiful girls, we have awful feminism. A perfect balance. We need to live better and we definitely need a revolution if we want to save our planet. I don't know how to raise people's awareness, but I want to try very much."

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Frenchman cleans up after Russians; what's Communism got to do with it? - Russia Beyond the Headlines

North Korean Communism is considered great by Americas communist party, but only 2.83 percent of their roads are paved. They are much worse off than San Felipe. All the roads in North Korea would circle Pluto 3.5 times, but only 450 miles are paved, barely the distance of New York to Cleveland. I grew up on a gravel road, but that was 75 years ago. Even the sections roads where we ran our hounds in the deep forest are now paved. Growing up we had one thing in common with North Korea, we used animal manure as a part of our fertilizing the fields. They dont have modern fertilizers, and use manure as their only source to enrich the soil.

Socialism/Communism is a failure. Bill Gates net worth of $85 to $90 billion is much greater than North Koreas Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If you really hate him, you might be a candidate for immigration. North Korean GDP is estimated at a paltry $17.4 billion, while free market USA is $16.77 trillion. One can visit North Korea, but will be assigned a care taker, who will not allow you to roam freely. They cant allow for real truth, in a failing paranoid Communist state. When any state lives on lies, loss of freedom is a must. Soldiers are everywhere, and privileges with unhampered police authority. Visitors are required to properly focus all pictures taken of statues of dictators at Mansu Hill grounds. Pictures, not meeting standards are destroyed. Can you imagine being forced to destroy a bad photograph of Trump for not meeting standards?

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Communism isn't so great - Del Rio News Herald

In the recent film Trumbo, about the blacklisted screenwriterand Stalinistwho helped end the barring of communists from working in Hollywood, a sinister, bespectacled figure threatens a poverty-row filmmaker who is employing Trumbo. Fire him, the sinister figure says, or wewho he identifies as the Motion Picture Alliance For The Preservation of American Idealswill shut you down.

In point of fact, such an incident could have and probably did happen, for that organization did try to enforce the blacklisting of suspected or actual communists from studios. But the makers of this eulogy to Trumbo overshot their mark by having said sinister figure cite Ronald Reagan as one of the members. Reagan, then a liberal, but anticommunist Democrat, was not.

It is readily apparent why the liberal film-makers of Trumbo are trying to link Reagan to an unofficial enforcement branch of the blacklist (although, to be fair, many of the anticommunist members were blacklisted by Hollywood reds when the latter had more clout with the studios). Even before his presidency, an unshakeable assertion by liberals was that Reagan was a right-wing loony enforcing the blacklist against progressives.

But the real Reagan was hardly a proponent of the blacklist; indeed, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, he sought to ameliorate its effects.

Almost alone among the friendly witnesses who testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 regarding communism in Hollywood (the same Congressional group that would help send Trumbo to jail) Reagan advised against imposing a blacklist on communists he had personally battled within the Screen Actors Guild.

Rather than, in the words of actor Robert Taylor, sending them back to Moscow, Reagan instead asserted that the best way to oppose communists was to make democracy work. An example of this, Reagan stated, was practiced in the Screen Actors Guild by insuring everyone a vote and keeping everyone informed.

And this policy Reagan advocated for the country at large: I believe that, as Thomas Jefferson put it, if all the American people know all of the facts they will never make a mistake.

But unlike the majority of right-wingers who testified, Reagan did not favor outlawing the Communist Party. As a citizen, the actor said, I would hesitate to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its political ideology.

Attacking the Communist Partys philosophy, and even more, their tactics, which are those of the fifth column, and are dishonest, Reagan nonetheless didnt want the country to abandon democracy to fight reds: I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment. I still think that democracy can do it.

Reagans adherence to civil liberties was all the more remarkable considering his run-ins with Hollywood communists during a 1945-46 labor strike in Hollywooda strike militantly and violently organized against studios by communists. As a member of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts and Sciences and Professions (ICCASP), a liberal group that helped re-elect FDR for a fourth term, Reagan became uncomfortably aware that over 70 percent of the supposedly liberal membership were hard-line Stalinists.

Along with other anti-communist liberals in the organization, among then actress Olivia De Havilland, Reagan tested the waters by introducing a resolution condemning communism as well as fascism and pledging support to the free enterprise system. Hardline communists denounced Reagan as a fascist and the actor later received a phone call from someone threatening to throw acid in his face. Outnumbered, and unable to convince communist members to allow the resolution to be put to a vote among the membership, Reagan and other liberals, including FDRs son James Roosevelt, resigned.

After testifying before HUAC in 1947, Reagan joined others to try to minimize the effects of the blacklist in a group called The Motion Picture Industry Council. In the words of liberal screenwriter and founding member Philip Dunne, the purpose of the group was to limit the scope of the blacklist, get the blacklisted back to work, and defend those who were falsely accused of communist beliefs.

But such nuance regarding Reagan does not fit into liberal narratives. Because Reagan was anticommunist, even while a Democrat, he has to be a red-baiter trying to deny those such as Trumbo employment.

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Ronald Reagan: Use Democracy To Fight Hollywood Communism - The Liberty Conservative

Recently, during the protests at Ramjas college and the Azaadi agitation which took place last year at JNU, there has been a continuous demand that an absolute freedom of speech shall prevail in the country without any reasonable restrictions. By observing Umar Khalid duringhis statements and protests, and how he got away without any charges wearing a garb of communism and free speech, Praveen Togadia and Akhbarudin Owaisi seem to have been very impressed with the JNU student.

A close aide of Owaisi told faking news, We are in talks with the liberal left think tanks, AISA, CPI(M) leaders and some JNU Students who will help us embrace this ideology as our new religion so that we are able to transform a hate speech into free speech. Similarly, Togadias spokesperson too said, By embracing communism and with the help of these people, we can help ourselves with an image makeover and transform our communal speeches into secular ones.

Also, the reason as to why Owaisi and Togadia got too carried away and emotional with the whole incident is that the fight of the left liberal brigade and AISA Students shall only be restricted tothe ultra nationalists or the ideology of jingoistic nationalism. Free religious hate speeches shall be welcomed by them with open arms. Hence it implies, that by embracing communism under the guidance of the left liberals and the intellectual elite, it would be easy to provide a breeding ground to the radical religious elements across India and would help them propagate their radical but free ideas and agendas.

Fascinated by the whole narrative itself, some separatist elements like the ones in Kashmir, remaining few khalistanis and the ones in north-easttoo have been driven by the idea and are considering to follow the footsteps of the two religious leaders in order to propagate their ideas.

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Owaisi and Togadia embrace communism as their religion for getting absolute freedom of speech - Firstpost (satire)

DAVAO CITY , Philippines The communists are still the countrys top security threat, according to National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.

It is communism that is the number one threat. Because the communists here want to change the way of life of the Filipinos. They want to force their way even if they are outdated already, Esperon said yesterday.

The communists have been waging an insurgency since 1968 which the military said has claimed 30,000 lives to overthrow the government.

Aside from the communists, Esperon added the problem of illegal drugs, extremism, terrorism, corruption, secessionism and even the alleged destabilization plots, as among the other threats the country currently faces.

Illegal drugs because it is destroying the very fiber of our society, the very core, our families. Illegal drugs wastes so much of our resources, our Filipino values, our youth, he said.

Esperon stressed the brand of communism the leftist groups are pushing is an old issue.

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The problem with these communists is that they are still talking about imperialism when we are no longer a colony. They are talking about feudalism and fascism, when we are not fascists. I think the communists should also update themselves on what they really want, he said.

He said even China, which is the leading communist country in the world, has opened up to foreign markets and to the idea of capitalism.

Esperon however said that even if communists pose the biggest national security threat, there are political solutions to the problem.

He cited President Dutertes efforts to achieve lasting peace and unite the country under one flag.

Esperon mentioned in particular the resumption of peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New Peoples Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

Duterte restarted peace talks with the communist rebels that had been on and off for 30 years.

The two sides separately declared ceasefires in August, and the informal arrangement largely held as they continued discussions in Rome last month.

The communists terminated their self-declared truce after accusing the government of failing to release all political prisoners and encroaching on rebel-held areas.

Duterte replied by scuttling the peace talks and declaring an all out war against the communist rebels.

During his visit to Camp Teodulfo Bautista in Jolo, Sulu last Friday, Duterte reminded the troops to expect an ambush anytime from the rebels.

Do not just leave your camps to stroll around, Duterte told the troops.

We have a resurgence of assassinations, Sparrows many soldiers have died. Expect an ambush anytime, Duterte said, referring to the notorious special partisan unit of NPA hit men.

The President advised soldiers to go out in groups and avoid being complacent about their safety. With Alexis Romero

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Communists still top security threat Esperon - Philippine Star