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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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  • 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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  • At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...
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  • South Korea, South Africa, Syria, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Amnesty International was in particular a thorn in the side of the ...
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  • two controversial movements: the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United ... in the United States against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting ...
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  • who opposed the increased influence of Soviet, Eastern bloc and Cuban officials ... military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • had occupied that country in fear of a Soviet invasion. Eichmann at once ... "following orders"–the same defense used by some of the Nazi ...
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  • The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" (or Pyatakov ...
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  • the CIA worked to limit the spread of Soviet influence elsewhere around ... two days before had taken photographs of Soviet-nuclear missile sites. The ...
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  • tanks and suffered severely against Soviet T-34s, which were superior ... with radios (all U.S. and German, some Soviet; British radios were common ...
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  • by the Miskito Indians, and establishing a Soviet-style communist dictatorship ... ), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees (CDS). The ...
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  • 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), ...
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  • ) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations ... In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a branch ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... Uritsky and the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , and air cover precluded an effective defense. The French were defeated ... However, France still controlled all defense issues and all foreign relations ...
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  • ) 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 ...
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  • crimes, and eleven convicted, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. ... located country, thus preventing the Soviet Union from doing the same ...
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  • ancient monarchy, the Ethiopians enjoyed Soviet Union support until the end ... Ethiopia came under the influence of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ===Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union=== into Bolshevist Russia and later into the Soviet Union (USSR). Leo Tolstoy ...
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