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Oleg Atbashian
Oleg Atbashian, a writer and graphic artist from Ukraine, currently lives in New York. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square.
Joyriding the Gravy Train of Economic Inequality
I escaped from the shipwreck of the Soviet "workers' paradise," the forced inequality of socialism, and chose the volunteer material inequality of capitalism.
Want a Financial Crisis? Impose ‘Fairness’
I believed the spectacular failure of forced equality in the USSR would serve as a repellent for the rest of the world. I was wrong.
Rigging the Economy in the Name of ‘Fairness’
The more we meddle with capitalism to fix its supposed injustices, the worse it gets.
Unions, Lenin, and the American Way (Part III)
American unions: a study in collective greed and selfishness. (This is part three of a seven-part essay. Read parts one and two.)
Unions, Lenin, and the American Way (Part II)
How unions bring forced inequality and economic injustice. (This is part two of a seven-part essay. Part one is here.)
Unions, Lenin, and the American Way (Part I)
American trade union tactics have roots in Lenin's USSR. (This is part one of a seven-part essay.)
America Awakes: Reflections on 9/12 (Part II)
What brought the tea partiers together was their love of freedom and individual liberty and need for action. And it was inspiring. (Read Part 1 here)
America Awakes: Reflections on 9/12
The Taxpayers' March on Washington as seen through the eyes of an ex-Soviet immigrant. (Part II will appear on Wednesday.)
‘The CIA Did It’: Conspiracy Theories in the Service of the ‘Common Good’
Obama is fully invested — as is Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and bin Laden — in old KGB lies about CIA "imperialism." The realities of the post-Cold War world are causing them problems. (This is part six of a series. Read parts one, two, three, four, and five.)
