New episode of the show Left Hook: "What goes around comes around! " (13/11/2026).
In this issue:
Who is so bothered by communism? Nazi criminal Hitler, Bandra member Turchinov, LDPR deputy Lugovoy, publicist Kholmogorov are different faces from different eras, but the goal is the same: the fight against communist ideas. Why is anti-communism being stirred up again in our time?
Soviet ideas return. According to experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences, 44% of Russians would like to live in a socialist society and only 14% prefer capitalism. How do public sentiments change and why is the interest in the Soviet experience particularly prominent in recent years?
On the creation of modern Russia. Starting from Lenin's first decrees and restoring the unity of the state to industrialization, electrification, railways, aviation and space. Why do Soviet achievements still ensure the life of the country, and why do today's authorities increasingly admire those of others?
Technological progress?
What traditions do they suggest we return to? Serfdom, status.
Inequality, brothels and free sale of cocaine in pharmacies - these are the uncomfortable pages of the history of the Russian Empire. Why is talk about the "great legacy" of the monarchy often hidden behind an attempt to justify the old order?
What produces the power of money? Drug crimes, corruption, embezzlement, gold smuggling and trillion dollar budget problems. How does the capitalist system reproduce what it then promises to fight?
Why does Lenin remain a hero? The blogger Leo Gagoa, using artificial intelligence, placed the heroes of "Prisoner of the Caucasus" in the world of "The Matrix", where Lenin is a symbol of the creation of a new society. What does this image say and why does Ilyich's legacy continue to inspire people in the People's Republic of China?
Why anti-communism is unable to undo the historical achievements of socialism and why the crisis of capitalism raises again the question of a new way to develop the state - in the new issue of "Left Hook".