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- the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of ... capital. The U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD, previously called ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- – December 14, 1989), was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident ... (FIAN) at the Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He received ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- ) (November 15, 1925 – December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident ... ), who took the pseudonym Daniel. The famous march song of the Soviet ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- in a Jewish ghetto and the tyranny of the Soviet regime to have a successful ... who accurately predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States ... Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt that the ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ... Despite an impressive German defense, the Red Army was able to stage ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Translated ... based on an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing houses ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- 21, 1978) was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin ... Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 until his retirement ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- Hungary in case Britain should fall to a Soviet invasion. There is a memorial ... In the 1930s, he argued for increased defense spending while being the ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- 25 mm and 47 mm, British 2-pounder, and Soviet 45 mm. All of these relatively ... knocker" (Panzeranklopfgerät) once Soviet T-34 and KV tanks were encountered; ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- both of which were satirical treatments of Soviet power. Zinoviev coined the ... Communism (and successive leaders of the Soviet Union), he later became an ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- of contempt of the Jews. In his self-defense at the Nurembeg Trials, ... Holocaust, the invasion of Poland, or the Soviet invasion. Yet his role in ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- and the Republic of Korea Civil Defense Corps, ROKCDC (대한민국 ... Korean Peninsula due to a failure of the Soviet Union to allow free and democratic ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- ) (January 20, 1948 - ) is a notable former Soviet dissident, human ... group was organized in response to monitor Soviet compliance with the so-called ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... in creating heavy industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 2023
- to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders. He fled the West ... 1979, Azzam sent out fatwa to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ... advances, the Wehrmacht was slowed by Soviet resistance (in particular ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- (wheeled), the French VAB (wheeled), the Soviet BTR (wheeled), and the American ... usually armed with a machine gun for self-defense. A new one, currently being ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- he excluded Korea from America's defense perimeter. Many scholars ... the Cold War would be won by isolating the Soviet Union and ensuring that the ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, ... growth. As the growth of the military and Soviet expansion into Africa, Latin ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- ) (December 30, 1942 - October 27, 2019) was a notable former Soviet ... against political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He spent a total of ...20 KB (2,721 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- . After the war he organized a local self-defense unit, which was absorbed ... many others. Zhang also tried to eliminate Soviet influence from Manchuria ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent ... became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the split, the ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- alone in opposition to Hitler until the Soviet Union and the United States ... During the 1920s, the Kuomintang government was aided by the Soviet ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgi Malenkov ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- by the Bolsheviks and replaced by the Soviet during the October Revolution. ... allegiances early on, with his frequent defense of anti-Tsarist revolutionaries ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- between Germany and its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city ... On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- The Uprising started at a crucial point in the war, as the Soviet ... Army coordinated its struggle with the Soviet army. According to Russian ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union, as they were the first ... In the 1990s, Soviet communications decrypted in the Venona project ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- of information relating to national defense. World War II espionage ... activity between the United States, the Soviet Union, and allies on both ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces, Marshal of Finland ... course between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- party noted for its staunchly pro-Soviet line throughout most of its ... factionalism when Josef Stalin pursued a Soviet-centered policy and the Trotskyists ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- War II, Allied powers Britain and the Soviet Union occupied Iran to keep ... During the Cold War Iran allied itself with the U.S. against the Soviet ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- included fortifications. Such a defense can be intended to actively ... a large military force to provide the defense, as well as maintain the ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... full-time, becoming one of the many Soviet politicians who took part ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the period following ... all remnant religious institutions in the Soviet Union. He also supported ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- the protégé of both Zhou Enlai and the Soviet General Vasily Blyukher. ... military journals, and also in Japan and Soviet Russia. ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- eastern cities in conjunction with the Soviet advance. In the summer of ... men) from other fronts and that if the Soviet advance could be helped by ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- constitutes a system of collective defense in which its member states ... doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- movement Yugoslav Partisans, defying Soviet influence (Titoism), and ... In 1935, Tito travelled to the Soviet Union, working for a year in ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- a communist led to the discovery of pro-Soviet writings. Baraka was put ... the Black Community Development and Defense Organization, a Muslim group ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union's declaration ... The Japanese planned an all-out defense of Kyūshū, with little ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- quot; Marxism from the lethargy of Soviet orthodoxy during the Stalinist ... government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, Lukács was made ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- of the Egyptian threat as the presence of Soviet equipment and personnel ... at this time that Egypt's ally the Soviet Union demanded a cease-fire. ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- only in Poland, a satellite state of the Soviet Union ruled (in practice ... and contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the early 1990s. ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- Makarov in 1894. The expedition of the Soviet research vessel Vityaz, in ... (including Operation Ivy Bells) to tap Soviet Navy undersea communications ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- Russia and the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Many celebrations of ... the original spirit of IWD in the former Soviet Union, "The 8th of March ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav ... Poland, and Romania into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- 039;s government would shift Iran into the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. #039;s coming under the control of the Soviet bloc of Iran's traditional ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- South Korea, South Africa, Syria, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Amnesty International was in particular a thorn in the side of the ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- two controversial movements: the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United ... in the United States against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- who opposed the increased influence of Soviet, Eastern bloc and Cuban officials ... military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments. ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- the doubling of Bengali quota in the defense services. It may be noted ... aid from the U.S. because of its anti-Soviet stance, which would subsequently ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- had occupied that country in fear of a Soviet invasion. Eichmann at once ... "following orders"–the same defense used by some of the Nazi ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" (or Pyatakov ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- the CIA worked to limit the spread of Soviet influence elsewhere around ... two days before had taken photographs of Soviet-nuclear missile sites. The ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- tanks and suffered severely against Soviet T-34s, which were superior ... with radios (all U.S. and German, some Soviet; British radios were common ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- by the Miskito Indians, and establishing a Soviet-style communist dictatorship ... ), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees (CDS). The ...27 KB (3,871 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- had already been drifting away from the Soviet Union, then left the Soviet ... 21s, SA-2, SA-3, SA-4, (Returned to the Soviet Union prior to the war), ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- ) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations ... In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a branch ...23 KB (3,169 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- created out of the occupation zones of the Soviet Union and United States established ... On August 6, 1945, the Soviet Union, in keeping with a commitment ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... Uritsky and the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. ...22 KB (3,197 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States ... occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- , and air cover precluded an effective defense. The French were defeated ... However, France still controlled all defense issues and all foreign relations ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... rapid conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union west of a line connecting ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- crimes, and eleven convicted, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. ... located country, thus preventing the Soviet Union from doing the same ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- ancient monarchy, the Ethiopians enjoyed Soviet Union support until the end ... Ethiopia came under the influence of the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- of the Republic gained the support of the Soviet Union and Mexico, while the ... aid and could purchase arms only from the Soviet Union. These arms included ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- ===Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union=== into Bolshevist Russia and later into the Soviet Union (USSR). Leo Tolstoy ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ... general sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations ...41 KB (6,060 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- though diplomatic, confrontation with the Soviet Union, accompanied by dramatically ... of nuclear war and the moral threat of the Soviet Union; it greatly affected ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- Late on April 30, as the Soviet forces continued to fight their way ... Weidling, the commander of the Berlin Defense Area, unconditionally surrendered ...18 KB (2,707 words) - 00:14, 28 November 2021
- bombers"); and fighters for fleet defense and bomber escort duties ... the need for this ship class for fleet defense from aerial attack. In April ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- meetings with the France's National Defense Committee on July 17 and ... given the terrain in Vietnam; a static defense line stretching to Laos ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- As both a scholar and an activist in the defense of human rights, Hook never ... She was a Communist Party member who went on to work at the Labor ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- Hughes fashioned his company into a major defense contractor. The Hughes Helicopters ... thereby turning the aerospace and defense contractor into a tax-exempt ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- supporters, having been expelled from the Soviet Union, considered the Comintern ... as embodied by the leadership of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- by NATO. NATO was chosen, since the mutual defense organization had suitable ... as time progressed, he began to view the Soviet Union in less ideological ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- ), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician. He was an Old Bolshevik ... authored a letter that claimed the Soviet Union was using the Labor ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 2023
- Arm (FAA) Sea Harriers between them for defense against the combined Argentintian ... Sidewinder missile, supplied to us by U.S. Defense Minister Caspar Weinberger ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture with Louis Aragon. ... up leading Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defense of Strasbourg and in the ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Cold War, McCarthyism, and the extent of Soviet espionage in the United States. ... member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy." ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- Hamburg Senate (1961-1965), as Minister of Defense (1969-1972), Minister of ... of missiles in Germany in response to the Soviet Union's missile superiority ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- and as a buffer state against the Soviet Union. Incessant conflicts ... example of this tactic is the successful defense of Changsha numerous times. ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Tubman gradually extended ties to the Soviet bloc, but he supported the ... In 1959, Liberia concluded a mutual defense pact with the United States. ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- Africa) Division. The 7th Indian Division's defense was based largely on the "Battle of the Admin Box"—formed initially from drivers ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- ===Indian defense of Kashmir=== Indian forces, rapidly airlifted to ... The war ended the following day. The Soviet Union, led by Premier Alexey ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union sought to expand the ... between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the conference ...54 KB (8,315 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- remained in the country, just as the Soviet Army remained in East Germany ... northwest, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east. The former ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- , was an American writer and editor. A Communist party member and ... Boris Bykov, the GRU Illegal Resident (a Soviet spymaster who resides in ...35 KB (5,145 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2023
- view. The most influential philosophical defense of this idea has been promulgated ... to socialism that had been taken by the Soviet Union was appropriate for ...24 KB (3,667 words) - 23:12, 21 January 2023
- both rushed to the bridge to direct her defense, until both were killed ... * 3rd Group - 36 A6Ms for defense and strafing ** 9 A6M - Ford Island ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... successful Red Army counterattack. The Soviet operation threw the Polish ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- The Soviet Union (USSR) was a command economy which already had an ... with relatively modest peace time defense budgets. By the end of the ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. Originally coined ... in World War II and allied with the Soviet Union, the issue of anti ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- and even became a strong critic of the Soviet Union after a visit there ... mass society and wrote passionately in defense of an empathic individualism ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union joined with Germany ... Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a mutual defense agreement, the Tripartite ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- policy, and opposed Détente with the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and 1970s. ... Democratic Party's leftward drift on defense issues in the 1970s, especially ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
