communism
I Played Illegal Pool with Mobsters in Communist Romania
The biggest stars had nicknames like "the Butcher" and "The Barber", while my manager wore grenades on his belt.
What It Feels Like to Be Deported
One night in 1951, soldiers woke up my grandmother and put her on a train to a barren plain on the other side of her country.
America In the Balkans
To someone living in the Balkans, America feels like a protest chant that has been sang so much, it's lost its meaning.
Photos of Romania in the 90s, When Sheep Roamed Bucharest's Motorways
Photographer Vali Pană captured the city right after the fall of communism.
Photos of Romania's Neglected Orphans Then and Now
Ceaușescu Decree no. 770 banned women from having abortions. That resulted in the birth of about 2 million children, who have since been known as "Generation Decree". Some of those kids ended up in orphanages.
Photos that Show What It Meant to Be Young and Feel Free in Communist Romania
Vali Pană spent the 1970s hiking around the Carpathian mountains.
What I Learned About My Father from Reading His Secret Police Files
My father, a Romanian theatre director, was considered a threat to the communist regime of his time.
China Is Kicking 9,000 People Out of Their Homes to Make Room for a Massive Alien Telescope
Chinese officials are serious about this whole E.T. thing, and they are giving people cash to get out of the way.
Guerrillas in the Mist: Seven Days in Rebel-Held Territory in Colombia
What does half a century of war do to a country?
Meet the Albanian Tattoo Artist Working Out of an Abandoned Bunker
VICE Serbia went to visit a notorious inker who's set up shop in a a remnant of the country's communist past.
This Journalist Spoke to Chechens Living in the Shadow of War
We spoke to French-English journalist Manon Loizeau, who recently went back to Chechnya years after the end of its devastating war to make a new documentary.