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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 ...
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  • – December 14, 1989), was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident ... (FIAN) at the Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He received ...
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  • ) (November 15, 1925 – December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident ... ), who took the pseudonym Daniel. The famous march song of the Soviet ...
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  • in a Jewish ghetto and the tyranny of the Soviet regime to have a successful ... who accurately predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States ... Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt that the ...
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  • 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ... Despite an impressive German defense, the Red Army was able to stage ...
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  • suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Translated ... based on an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing houses ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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; ...
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  • both of which were satirical treatments of Soviet power. Zinoviev coined the ... Communism (and successive leaders of the Soviet Union), he later became an ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ) (January 20, 1948 - ) is a notable former Soviet dissident, human ... group was organized in response to monitor Soviet compliance with the so-called ...
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  • ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... in creating heavy industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ... advances, the Wehrmacht was slowed by Soviet resistance (in particular ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ) (December 30, 1942 - October 27, 2019) was a notable former Soviet ... against political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He spent a total of ...
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  • . After the war he organized a local self-defense unit, which was absorbed ... many others. Zhang also tried to eliminate Soviet influence from Manchuria ...
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  • – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent ... became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the split, the ...
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  • alone in opposition to Hitler until the Soviet Union and the United States ... During the 1920s, the Kuomintang government was aided by the Soviet ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • by the Bolsheviks and replaced by the Soviet during the October Revolution. ... allegiances early on, with his frequent defense of anti-Tsarist revolutionaries ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Uprising started at a crucial point in the war, as the Soviet ... Army coordinated its struggle with the Soviet army. According to Russian ...
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  • passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union, as they were the first ... In the 1990s, Soviet communications decrypted in the Venona project ...
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  • of information relating to national defense. World War II espionage ... activity between the United States, the Soviet Union, and allies on both ...
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  • The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...
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  • the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces, Marshal of Finland ... course between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II ...
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  • party noted for its staunchly pro-Soviet line throughout most of its ... factionalism when Josef Stalin pursued a Soviet-centered policy and the Trotskyists ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • included fortifications. Such a defense can be intended to actively ... a large military force to provide the defense, as well as maintain the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the period following ... all remnant religious institutions in the Soviet Union. He also supported ...
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  • the protégé of both Zhou Enlai and the Soviet General Vasily Blyukher. ... military journals, and also in Japan and Soviet Russia. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • constitutes a system of collective defense in which its member states ... doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet ...
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  • movement Yugoslav Partisans, defying Soviet influence (Titoism), and ... In 1935, Tito travelled to the Soviet Union, working for a year in ...
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  • a communist led to the discovery of pro-Soviet writings. Baraka was put ... the Black Community Development and Defense Organization, a Muslim group ...
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  • of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union's declaration ... The Japanese planned an all-out defense of Kyūshū, with little ...
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  • quot; Marxism from the lethargy of Soviet orthodoxy during the Stalinist ... government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, Lukács was made ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • Makarov in 1894. The expedition of the Soviet research vessel Vityaz, in ... (including Operation Ivy Bells) to tap Soviet Navy undersea communications ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav ... Poland, and Romania into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating ...
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  • 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 ...
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