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  • #039;s interest to ally itself with Soviet Russia, "which the newspapers ... Men without Art (1934). It grew out of a defense of Lewis's own satirical ...
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  • was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ... War II), Kosygin was a member of the State Defense Committee and was tasked ...
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  • The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... were driven from Poland by the advancing Soviet Red Army, and the Yalta Conference ...
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  • transferred in the Balkans as part of the defense. Due to Greek maritime operations ... and Serbia signed a treaty of mutual defense against an attack on any ...
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  • influences due to its former status as a Soviet republic. Today, Western ... its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ...
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  • Korea is steadily moving toward full self-defense posture. While inaugurating ... parallel under the administration of the Soviet Union in the north and the ...
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  • up to 10 MPa for titanium submarines like Soviet Komsomolets, while the pressure ... After World War II, approaches split. The Soviet Union changed its ...
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  • George Padmore, fell out with his Soviet hosts, and he was forced ... Mau. The trial dragged on for months. The defense argued that the white settlers ...
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  • he leaned toward socialism and the Soviet Union, associating Western ... outlay of £75 million or $216 million for defense, compared to £53 million ...
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  • such as 800,000 women who served in the Soviet military during World War ... that female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces have been officially ...
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  • Churchill chaired the War Cabinet and the Defense Committee. Attlee was his ... war-time ally, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. Attlee's Foreign ...
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  • Korea at the 38th parallel, giving the Soviet Union responsibility to administer ... Kim Il-sung's Soviet-backed communist dictatorship declared the ...
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  • (March 9 [O. S. February 25] 1890 – November 8, 1986) was a Soviet ... During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet leadership, after ...
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  • Jones' wife Marceline that Guyanese Defense Forces would not invade ... like Cambodia, North Korea, and the Soviet Union as models, Jones reportedly ...
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  • ===The Soviet period=== After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Georgia ... by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze. Soviet rule was established only ...
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  • during the delicate transition of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe ... address, Bush alluded to the fact that the Soviet Union and its client states ...
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  • Interestingly, the Soviet ambassador to Paris and the director of ... In Summer 1985, Defense Minister Charles Hernu was forced to resign ...
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  • with Hitler's declaration that the Soviet Union must be destroyed and ... that Germany had occupied a huge swath of Soviet territory into which all ...
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  • " but after it was crushed by the Soviet invasion, he was fired from ... of reformist activities was crushed by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ...
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  • by the new weapon, as well as fear of the Soviet entry into the Pacific war ... *Soviet Union: Korea north of the 38th parallel, Sakhalin, and most ...
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  • The Soviet Union used a single airship during the war. The W-12, built ... sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and is called the ...
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  • Allies of the Vietnamese communists included the Soviet Union and ... and Afghanistan were all brought into the Soviet sphere of influence. The ...
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  • the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland ... what was likely to have been a strong defense of diminished responsibility ...
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  • the Truman administration and Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson. Indeed ... NKPA divisions hastily re-equipped by the Soviet Union. The allied assault ...
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  • and Iran had been chiefly an ally of the Soviet Union. The U.S. was concerned ... from other states (most importantly the Soviet Union, France, Egypt, and ...
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  • a communist activist and an admirer of the Soviet Union, and that this led ... equal fifth out of eight, the top non-Soviet player, at the Candidates ...
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  • with Lenin's rise to power in the Soviet Union, the first communist state. ... to support the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, even if they did not ...
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  • Communist government of Hungary and its Soviet imposed policies, lasting ... the State Security Police (ÁVH) and Soviet troops. Pro-Soviet communists ...
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  • On June 23, 1941, a day after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union ... and Truman should have resisted the Soviet Union's permanent membership ...
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  • policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, thrusting him into ... When the U.S. opened diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933 ...
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  • from the agricultural policies under Soviet rule. Herbicides have contaminated ... the three highest elevations in the former Soviet Union: Lenin Peak at 23,405 ...
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  • Patrick & Iacono, 1991). Although defense attorneys often attempt ... passed two polygraph tests while spying for the Soviet Union. ...
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  • (Aug 3, 2005) carried a letter from the Soviet KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky ... bombers" in some reports. In its defense the BBC says that the word ...
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  • Developed by the United States Department of Defense, it is officially ... * L3 (1381.05 MHz): Used by the Defense Support Program to signal ...
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  • up of Polish Jews by crossing into the Soviet Union. On September 20, 1940 ... In 1941, just after the German offensive started against the Soviet ...
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  • Gulag system of forced labor camps of the Soviet Union. As a result of this ... numbering in the millions, were Jews and Soviet and Polish prisoners of war ...
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  • for Reagan to establish relations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ... was obligated to assist in Taiwan's defense, which included the sale ...
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  • advocate of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, perhaps overselling ... Fuchs, who later was revealed to be a Soviet spy. Apparently, Teller also ...
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  • Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ... ===Bolshevism in the Soviet Union=== The Soviet Union made extensive ...
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  • sites. However, when it became clear that defense was untenable, communist ... movements, often backed by Cuba and/or the Soviet Union, attempted to overthrow ...
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  • and obsolete Brewster F2As, made a defense of Midway and suffered major ... does raise the question of the role the Soviet Union would have played in ...
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  • rural guerrilla strategy in favor of self-defense and urban commando actions ... the neighborhood-based Sandinista Defense Committees (Comités de ...
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  • A lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in Santa ... is believed to have been operated by the Soviet Union. As permanently mounted ...
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  • bin Laden joined the fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ... scholar Abdullah Azzam to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and ...
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  • a prominent art critic, and engaged in the defense of Ştefan Luchian, a painter ... literary prizes under during the period of Soviet-induced transition to a people ...
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  • and decided to organize a line of defense on the river Drewenz (Drwęca ... Bohemia and Moldavia). Historians of the Soviet Union attempted to overemphasize ...
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  • the Congress party took examples from the Soviet constitution, which inspired ... to cherish its heritage and assist in its defense. It aims to promote the ...
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  • – March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician ... from 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy ...
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  • superior became a major factor in British defense policy during the late nineteenth ... from the Victorious and Ark Royal. The Soviet dreadnought Petropavlovsk ...
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  • of his sojourn from a once successful defense lawyer in Paris to his discovered ... which was not only an assault on the Soviet police state, but also questioned ...
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  • country in Central Asia, formerly of the Soviet Union, surrounded entirely ... from revolution and unrest within the Soviet Union of the twentieth century ...
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  • of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. ... violated the agreement and invaded the Soviet Union. Upon discovery of ...
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  • between the two nations and increased defense spending on the part of ... severed ties with Pakistan and increased defense preparedness. Since the ...
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  • power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 and his ... Stalin was responsible transforming the Soviet Union from an agricultural ...
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  • in Romania. After being occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, and changing ... Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August ...
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  • the side of the south Vietnamese, with the Soviet Union and the People's ... of communist-held North Vietnam to the Soviet Union or the People's ...
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  • In 1959 a joint Finnish/Soviet production entitled Sampo (aka The ... down. In 1961 a small town of Uhtua in the Soviet Republic of Karelia, was ...
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  • Communist Party. He thought that the Soviet Union threatened democracy ... a common currency, a common Bank, a common defense force as well as a customs ...
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  • From 1968 to 1972, the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations sold ... sought to diversify its suppliers. The Soviet Union continued to supply ...
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  • to join the insurgency against the Soviet invasion, but the Soviets ... Authority and members of a Chinese defense delegation. Furious Jordanians ...
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  • of the Skybolt missile system by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ... by Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. His previous attempt ...
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  • September 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans and the ... #039;s Catholicism, Cuba, and whether the Soviet space and missile programs ...
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  • crisis amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on which it was heavily ... Soviet records show that Kim was born Yuri Irsenovich Kim ( ...
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  • her diary, which contained intensely anti-Soviet ideas. She was influenced ... *Hamel, Virginia L.L. In Defense of Ayn Rand. Brookline, MA: New Beacon ...
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  • Hatch supported the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Jackie Hicken ... #039;s nuclear deterrence versus the Soviet Union and the People's ...
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  • to the field army. In some nations coast defense artillery was a naval responsibility ... army for the field and air force for home defense. In some cases infantry ...
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  • #039;s gun, changed his mind after the defense arranged test firings of ... it off a few weeks before the murder. The defense, however, was able to raise ...
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  • only in Cuba, but throughout the Third World and Soviet bloc. ... outdoor prison, where he built houses for Soviet advisers from dawn until ...
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  • comes from radiation, a result of the Soviet Union testing almost 500 ... region of the northeast, where the Soviet Union tested almost 500 nuclear ...
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  • E., who established a strategic power and defense center here. In 125 B.C ... of Rusovce and represented part of the defense system Limes Romanus, which ...
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  • With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... Despite this acceptance, post-Soviet Russia lacked the military and ...
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  • of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. === Factors contributing ... and presented his ideas in a "non-Soviet" way. Young Ukrainian ...
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  • His flight occurred while the U.S. and the Soviet Union were embroiled ... *Thomas D. White National Defense Award [https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/82471 ...
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  • foreign policy, especially with the Soviet Union and China, and his ... National Exhibition in Moscow where he and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ...
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  • extend the promotion of democracy and the defense of freedom to the rest of ... for grabs" according to former senior Defense Department official Paul ...
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  • Moscow to spend three months studying the Soviet political and military system ... were purged from the KMT and the Soviet advisers were expelled. Wang ...
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  • and anti-communism directed at the Soviet Union were among the leading ... land. In the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, occupational territories ...
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  • Navy remained an essentially coastal defense force, although the Meiji ... Kokubō (Jp:守勢国防, "Static Defense"), concentrated on ...
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  • of A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League, who objected to ... 1930s to claim that Ukrainian Jews in the Soviet Union had obtained Romanian ...
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  • War II. Chamberlain entered into a Mutual Defense Pact with Poland, but was ... accused him of being too frugal with defense expenditure while the Labour ...
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  • Diponegoro Division became responsible for defense of the west and south-west ... Indonesia would otherwise ally with the Soviet Union, led the Netherlands ...
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  • "enemies of the state" in the Soviet Union. However, the term ... extended techniques used earlier in the Soviet Union to prepare prisoners ...
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  • 157 German divisions were stationed in the Soviet Union, 6 in Finland, 12 in ... such as conscripted Poles and former Soviet prisoners-of-war who had ...
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  • Jewish conductor Victor de Sabata. In his defense, Furtwängler said: ... was evidenced by the courageous stand in defense of his colleague and countryman ...
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  • way the Bolshevik regime had done in the Soviet Union. Institutions such ... of war with Britain, France and/or the Soviet Union. The Army Chief of ...
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  • to Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya and the Soviet Union for support. ... officials impounded a large convoy of Soviet-made arms en route to Uganda ...
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  • After the Axis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Soviet leader ... #039;s Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day ...
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  • of State and Local School Systems. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I. Out of concern that the Russians were beating the U.S. in the space race ...
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  • would have more access to capital and defense forces than others. They ... have argued that the existence of defense [often spelled defense] ...
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  • As Germany and Austria-Hungary had mutual defense treaties in place, this ... a letter from the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet saying: ...
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  • During the Soviet period it was assumed proven that Catherine ordered ... Polish loyalist forces in the War in Defense of the Constitution and ...
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  • and Philippe Pétain. During the Polish-Soviet war (1919-1920|21), he volunteered ... He was heavily influenced by the Polish-Soviet War—by the use of tanks ...
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  • as well as tough stance against the Soviet Union. Her hard-line defense ... On January 19, 1976, Thatcher gave a scathing attack on the Soviet ...
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  • After World War I, during the Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921), he was ... ===Polish-Soviet War=== Polish-Soviet War [[Image:Jozef Pilsudski w ...
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  • moral purpose of acting altruistically in defense of freedom and democracy ... the strongest voices around the globe in defense of human rights and human ...
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  • France, China and, after June 1941, the Soviet Union. After 1939, unemployment ... When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Roosevelt extended ...
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  • adequate social welfare, strong national defense, and non-involvement in ... and did not see Stalin's Soviet Union as a major threat. ...
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  • Afghan children who had been injured by Soviet land mines—he raised only $2000. ... September 17, 2022. Both U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman ...
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  • it was the capital of the former Soviet Union and the Grand Duchy ... ===Capital of the Soviet Union=== In January 1905, the institution ...
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  • fatally delayed the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Others hold that the ... The Fifth Yugoslav Army was given responsibility for the defense of ...
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