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A propaganda booklet published by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1955 for the use of party agitators outlined the seriousness of 'flight from the republic', stating "leaving the GDR is an act of political and moral backwardness and depravity", and "workers throughout Germany will demand punishment for those who today leave the ...
Young people have engaged in a wide variety of draft evasion practices around the world, some of which date back thousands of years. [10] [4] This section aims to delineate a representative sampling of draft evasion practices and support activities as identified by scholars and journalists. Examples of many of these practices and activities can ...
Living Testaments. The oldest known person in the world died at 118, far exceeding the United Nation's world life expectancy of 72.98 years. But living past 100 isn't the rarity it once was.
Since the peak immigration years of the 1970s, when the majority of Koreans were still heating their homes with coal briquettes, the country has become the 14th-largest economy in the world and a ...
Similarly, the Vietnam-era National Guard was seen by some as an avenue for avoiding combat in Vietnam, [15] although that too was less than foolproof: about 15,000 National Guardsmen were sent to Vietnam before the war began winding down. [15] Phil Ochs (1940–1976) was one of several countercultural figures to encourage draft evasion.
Look around you. The future has arrived. Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to imagine what life would be like in 2025. Some of their prophecies were completely off target, while ...
A 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. The thought of the United States without George Washington as its president caused concern among many Americans. Thomas Jefferson disagreed with many of Washington's policies and later led the Democratic-Republicans in opposition to many Federalist policies, but he joined his political rival Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists ...
In a world that is less and less stable, having that blue passport is a pretty wonderful thing.” But it does happen, says David Lesperance, an attorney who helps wealthy Americans give up their ...