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The Revolutionary: Sidney Rittenberg

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 by Total Disclosure

Filmmaker Irv Drasnin interviews Sidney Rittenberg, an American citizen who became the only foreign member of China’s Communist Party. During China’s Cultural Revolution, one of the most tragic and least understood political upheavals of the 20th century, Mao Zedong’s call to “make revolution” was answered by tens of millions of Chinese and one American. Curiously, Rittenberg … Read more

Joseph Stalin: The Pedophile

October 23, 2025October 19, 2025 by Total Disclosure

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified … Read more