MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS NEW TERMS OF POLITICAL TRADE 1 Oct 2019

1)Putin Welcomes Stalin Back to the Pantheon   – A New Russian Patriotism Embraces the Soviet Past  –  By Andrei Kolesnikov – FOREIGN AFFAIRS

 

2)China’s Neo-Maoist Moment   – How Xi Jinping Is Using China’s Past to Accomplish What His Predecessors Could Not  –  By Elizabeth Economy

 

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