Why do we see ourselves as morally superior to other historical eras?
Perhaps we’re more sensitive to the suffering of others, but that’s hardly due to us being better people — and doesn’t give us the right to arrogantly judge the past
A demolished communist palace and other rubble: How Berlin is managing its GDR buildings and monuments
An exhibition commemorates the demolition of the former parliament building in the German capital in 2008, an example of the persistent erasure of traces of socialism in the city
Agustín Comotto, author of graphic novel on the founder of the Soviet Union: ‘Lenin would now be on TikTok’
The Argentinian cartoonist has published a carefully illustrated biography of the Soviet leader on the centenary of his death
Artists and writers sum up communism in three words: censorship, repression, death
The journalist and editor Manuel Florentín has published a chronicle of the persecution that totalitarian regimes have perpetrated against intellectuals and creators, from Lenin’s Soviet Union to Ortega’s Nicaragua