A hardline Communist, Davis supported the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and relished being a guest of Fidel Castro in Cuba — where she went immediately following her acquittal. But her greatest love was for the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries it ruled over. In 1979, Davis received the Lenin Peace Prize (once known as the Stalin Peace Prize). Russian writer Vitaly Korotich, who met her in Moscow, noted later that Davis was “a useful tool for the Brezhnev government, used to bolster Communist ideals and speak out against the West during the Cold War.” When she left the Soviet Union, Davis stood on top of the ladder ascending to the entrance of her plane, her fist in the revolutionary salute, told the crowd of well-wishers, “Long live the science of Marxism-Leninism.” Read more»

Ronald Radosh, “The Angela Davis Moment: The Elite Media Canonize an Apologist for Revolutionary Violence and Totalitarianism,” November 19, 2020.

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  R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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