The World from PRX

Communists

The monument to “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the founder and patron saint of the Soviet secret police.
History
In the removal of a Soviet symbol of oppression, Russians see lessons for the US
Women pray in front of paramilitary policemen at Yonghegong Lama Temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Rooster in Beijing, China.
Books
Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China
Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in post-Soviet Russia in the '90s: "No one knew exactly how to make music like that but I did because I grew up overseas."
Global Politics
The guy who supplied the soundtrack for Boris Yeltsin’s Rock the Vote