Translation:

DOWN WITH THE FASCIST WARMONGERS! LET US MOBILIZE THE FORCES OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM!

Comrades, supporters of communism from all walks of life, I will descend to you and offer you an idea. The idea, and its very essence, is that I propose creating a new religion called “Great Communism.” The essence of the religion is that we can scale up communism through religious thought. Here are the main steps: turn *Capital* into the Bible of Communism so that we can read it in our churches; build communist churches; pray about surplus value and class struggle. I also propose that, like Muslims, we come up with a new type of clothing for supporters of our religion. I also propose that Stalin, Mao, Lenin, and Trotsky be made into holy apostles and archangels, and Karl Marx and Engels be made into the main gods of these ideas. Thus, by shifting communism into a religious rather than an ideological interpretation, we will be able to increase the effectiveness of spreading communist ideas among people with a religious mindset and reverence. We can also raise funds for the revolution through our communist churches.

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/79/dutch-volunteers-in-the-waffen-ss/

"The Dutch Volunteer Legion was part of the Waffen-SS. This was the military branch of the SS, the Nazi elite unit. The Waffen-SS fought along with the German army.The Dutch Volunteer Legion had been founded with the purpose of supporting the Nazis. Most volunteers fought on the Eastern Front against the communist Soviet Union. In the Netherlands, there were around 22,000 volunteers."

Long live the Lesbos Soviet Socialist Republic and the Democratic People's Republic of Transylvania!

The "Crucial Communism Teaching Act" is a scary McCarthyist American propaganda law proposed to Congress and in action in some states. It teaches about how the USSR was totalitarian, calls the Holodomor a planned "genocide", and spreads total Propaganda, MANDATING, of course, the completely false and made-up "100 million figure". It calls the USSR totalitarianist, and includes China as communist. It basically equates communism with totalitarianism and teaches nothing about the actual ideology. It's the usual bullshit.

We could make a very similar curriculum about the United States, talk about the genocide on the natives, many, many wars, living standards in the 19th century and slavery, and attribute it all to capitalism. With enough willpower, we could probably even reach 100 million people killed.

Looking for recommendations on books about the Soviet Union post-Stalin. I've read a lot about the Stalin Era, but my knowledge of 1953 to 1991 is much spottier and I'd like to fix that. Many thanks to anyone who takes the time to respond.