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Victory Day — May 9, 2026

Eighty-one years ago, the Red Army raised the Soviet banner over Berlin and shattered the N**i war machine at the cost of more than 27 million Soviet lives. Today, as empire rewrites history and sanitizes fascism’s roots in capitalism, we remember a harder truth:

The defeat of N**ism was not won by Wall Street, Hollywood mythology, or the “free market.” It was won through unimaginable sacrifice by workers, peasants, anti-fascists, partisans, and colonized peoples across the world — led decisively on the Eastern Front by the Soviet Union.

But Victory Day is also a reminder of what came next.

Even before the ashes cooled in Europe, Anglo-American power began transforming the anti-fascist alliance into a new global order built on containment, political warfare, covert operations, propaganda systems, and the reconstruction of capitalist empire. The Cold War did not emerge from “misunderstanding.” It emerged from the struggle over the future of the world itself.

This new essay traces how that transformation happened — from wartime cooperation to psychological warfare, covert intervention, ideological management, and the construction of the U.S.-led imperial order that still shapes our reality today.

The Cold War was never just about Europe.
It was about crushing socialism, disciplining decolonization, and containing revolutionary transformation across the globe.

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Victory to the anti-fascists.
Memory to the fallen.
Struggle to the living.

From Alliance to Containment: How Anglo-American Power Engineered the Cold War The essay provocatively dismantles the myth that the Cold War was merely a reaction to “Soviet aggression.” Instead, it reveals it as America’s calculated strategy to reinforce a …

Everybody keeps asking whether BRICS and multipolarity are “good” or “bad” like history is a Marvel movie with superheroes and villains. Wrong question.

The real question is this: why is the West panicking so hard?

Because for the first time in generations, the empire can no longer fully dictate the terms of global development. China is building infrastructure across the Global South. ASEAN is consolidating into a massive economic bloc. BRICS is expanding. Countries once trapped under IMF chains are exploring alternatives. Trade corridors are shifting. Technology flows are shifting. Energy flows are shifting. The world the Atlantic ruling class built after 1991 is cracking in real time.

But let’s be clear: multipolarity is not socialism automatically descending from the heavens on a high-speed rail line from Beijing. Workers are still exploited. Capital still rules. Platform monopolies still exist. The billionaires didn’t disappear just because the map changed color.

What’s changing is the terrain of struggle itself.

Under unipolar empire, the entire planet was forced to move through Washington, Wall Street, NATO, Silicon Valley, and the dollar system. Now the Global South is prying open space to breathe, maneuver, industrialize, negotiate, and resist. That matters. A lot.

The old imperial center promised “globalization” and delivered debt, war, deindustrialization, austerity, surveillance, and endless humiliation. Now the same people who bombed half the planet want you terrified because China builds railways, semiconductor industries, logistics corridors, ports, and development banks instead of drone bases.

This essay is about the contradiction inside all of this. The rise of a multipolar world inside a still-capitalist system. The emergence of new corridors of sovereignty alongside new forms of exploitation. The struggle of workers trying to survive and organize inside a world being reorganized beneath their feet.

The future is not written yet. But one thing is obvious: the empire is no longer alone at the steering wheel.

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