Tag: USSA

Ron Unz, How “Israelism” Has Replaced Christianity as the American Civic Religion

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Ron Unz Christian Russia and Christian America EPub Format Last week I published a long article comparing our society with that of the USSR, our great Cold War adversary. I noted the disturbing recent trends that have gradually shifted our country towards certain Soviet practices that we had once so sharply condemned, and I drew some uncomfortable conclusions from this. At one point, I briefly sketched out a few of the strange recent ironies: During the long Cold War that dominated much of the twentieth century, the USA and the USSR stood as the…

Ron Unz, American Pravda: The Jewish Roots of the USSR and the USSA

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Ron Unz  The Soviet Union and Alexander Solzhenitsyn EPub Format Decades ago when I was in college and grad school I had a strong side-interest in the Soviet Union and its history. During those years I may have read as many as one hundred books on those subjects. At that point, my views on most historical matters were almost entirely mainstream and conventional, closely conforming to what I had absorbed from our major media outlets and standard history textbooks. During the last couple of decades my understanding of the world…