In the place of the Soviet Union and the influence operations run by its intelligence service, the KGB, and the Communist International (Comintern), we confront the Islamic doctrine known as shariah and the Muslim Brotherhood, which serves as the principal engine for extending its reach.
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Stalin invited the head of the Comintern, the international Communist organisation founded in Moscow, to explain his thinking.
Xinhua news agency revealed no details of Vice-Marshall Choe Ryong-hae's meeting with Wang Jiarui, head of the Communist Party's international department, except for an exchange of views on "issues of common concern regarding the Korean Peninsula".
The premise that has attracted hedge funds and pension funds is that North Korea can't exist in isolation forever, and, like other former communist countries, will need to tap the international markets for funds.
The US supported a coup against a popular Iranian leader in 1953 (and also influenced other political transitions), and Communist China was under U.S.-led international sanctions for most of its existence.
"Under any circumstances it would be bad policy to allow a communist government with a centrally controlled economy to join an international organization based on free market and free trade principles, " Gaffney said.
The communist nation launched the rocket over the weekend in defiance of international opinion -- and possibly U.N.
And last week, a senior employee of the international department of the CPSU responsible for channeling funds to communist parties abroad met the same fate.
During the Cold War years, this feature of "surrogate" broadcasting (affording access to accurate news and other information to populations denied it by their own, communist-controlled media) was assured by an independent Board for International Broadcasting.
From the 1949 Communist triumph to the late 1970s when Chinese sports teams appeared again at international events, soccer was not played at all in China.
Turning to international news, Zhang Liangui, North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, welcomes a visit to North Korea by US basketball stars as well as earlier visits by the head of Google and the New York Philharmonic, but dismisses any notion of "basketball diplomacy".
The collapse of the communist Soviet state in 1991 left independent republics ill-prepared to compete in international markets.
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Renegade mid-level officials in the US Agency for International Development are considering whether and how to fund the resurgence of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) as a secular "anchor" against both Islamic political movements and the pro-American Iraqi National Congress.
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In so far as international comparisons (which are notoriously tricky) are to be believed, secondary education in most ex-communist countries matches western European levels.
But the prince has wrecked many international friendships with a feckless record, and with the rekindling of his old alliance with elements of the communist Khmers Rouges, who once ran Cambodia and may have killed up to 2m of its people.
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