The grandfather is actually insulting the grandson to be a capitalist pig since he is leaving for America instead staying in Leningrad. ... The next day, the married and had a son. ... The story then shifts back to a flashback of the grandson talking about the day his parents died. ... We then come back to the present day where the grandfather called the grandson to ask for his help in order to buy Lenin corpse off of EBay because there is no such things as credit cards and master cards in Leningrad. ... The grandfather tells him that after he came out of the dugout, he went to visit it and sa...

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• Grade Level: High School

" They had no responsibilities, no rights, no freedom. ... The NKVD would simply replace them with others. ... Gosplan laid down production targets for each main industry: electricity, coal, oil, pig-iron and steel, to be reached in 5 years. ... Famine quickly spread over the countryside where around three million people died. ... Most of the 4 million died as a result of Stalin's policy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

That the Cuban Missile Crisis took place is no surprise. ... Kennedy's decision-making early in his presidency certainly gave Khrushchev no reason to think that the U.S. would take action to stop the Soviets. ... Although we held strategic and tactical superiority in the Caribbean, the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. ... On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. ... RFK admits that once the quarantine started Pr...

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They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... They believed that more negotiations would eventually work. ... With the separation of -4- Germany, no one knew what would become of Germany or where it would be in the future. ... Korea would be a -5- divided country full of hostility for many years. ... The danger, some scientists believed, was that having a bomb this large would react with the nitrogen or hydrogen in the atmosphere and create a chain reaction. ...

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• Grade Level: High School