June 9, 2006

Communist 'Jeopardy'

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

Who uttered this famous line? "A progress in reality is equivalent to a dozen political programs."

If you don't know, you probably wouldn't have fared too well at the Marx, Lenin, and Ho Chi Minh Theory Olympics held last month in Hanoi.

Many of the hundreds of students who attended the biennial event did know. And so they should. Classes in Communist ideology and party history start in elementary school in Vietnam and are required subjects even in college.

Despite the

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