How non-democracies are organised, why they survive, and how they break down.
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Venezuelan Politicians Visit Pawnee
Venezuelan Politicians Visit Pawnee From Parks and Recreation (NBC) Categories: Run time: 1:51 Clip Description: A delegation of Venezuelan officials tours Pawnee’s parks department and[…]
Communism in The Last of Us
A community organised on collective principles after the collapse of the state, described by its members in exactly those terms and working - for now[…]
Fidel Castro on The Simpsons Calls Communism Mumbo Jumbo
A cartoon Castro, in private, dismisses the ideology his state is built on. Fourteen seconds, and entirely about the gap between official doctrine and the[…]
Phillip from The Americans Talks Up the USA versus the Soviet Union
A Soviet intelligence officer living undercover in the United States says, briefly and almost unwillingly, that life is better here. Twenty-eight seconds, and the whole[…]
Communism in The Hunger Games
Panem's districts each produce one thing and see almost none of it. The Capitol consumes what the districts make, and the arrangement is presented as[…]
Squashing Protests in The Hunger Games
Peacekeepers move in on a crowd in District 11 after a gesture of solidarity at the Games. The response is immediate, public and disproportionate -[…]