No other nation could have the attrition rate afforded to Russia by its vast population. ... The revolution in command is epitomized in the figure of General Zhukov: given greater freedom for decision making, "the man who beat Hitler" proved to be a formidable tactician. ... Believing they would quickly topple Russia, the Wehrmacht had not prepared for Winter. ... Economy The Russian war effort was a "tremendous economic and organizational achievement." ... Economically, lend-lease was "Russia's life-saver." ...

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He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. ... Brecht was exiled and travelled almost all over Europe, followed by the Nazi's until eventually, via Russia, he reached America. ...

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Take for example that while the original allied forces contained Tsarist Russia, Britain & France , the allies would later be split with the loss of Tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and the inclusion of the USA on the front. ... In comparison to the Communists in Russia, the Blackshirts resembled the Soviets used as the arm behind the meaning. ...

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At the turn of the century, around 1902, Russia fell victim to a famine and a cholera epidemic. Following this terrible year a wave of anti-Semitism swept across the Russian State. ... Jews in every community throughout Russia were in danger of losing their lives. ... Russia was not the only source of persecution for the Jews, they were also fleeing Romania. ... It stated that all of the traditional institutions must be overthrown and that Jews must demoralize and corrupt all Christian peoples with wars, strikes, and revolutions. ...

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These men claimed to want only stability; furthermore, they claimed to view revolution with horror, yet they were themselves in a sense, the most ruthless revolutionaries the world had ever seen. ... Most cities in Russia were destroyed by the Russian themselves as to avoid leaving any goods for Napoleon. Russians intended to leave nothing for the enemy, so they raid through the country destroying all the villages and all source of resources; to illustrate, Kovno, Vilna, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Viasna, Gzatsk, Borodino and Moscow were among the cities brought down to ruins. ... While fighting with ...

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Hitler was more than upset that the French, American, British, Russian, and Italian forces have beaten the might of German industrialization. ... In 1918 and 1919 numerous new parties were beginning to form as a result of the revolution of 1918 in Germany and the economic collapse of the German states. Hitler vowed to fight for everything against what the revolution of 1918 stood for, yet like Napoleon of the French Revolution, Hitler is a product of the 1918 revolution, and a very dangerous one at that. ...

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Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. ... Thus , he turned against the revolution in Germany and the Weimar Republic that he blamed for his misfortune. ...

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This trait that allowed him to use circumstances to help attain his goals was seen in 1920 with Italy, and would continue after he had formulated his program with such decisions to intervene in Spain and sign non-aggression pacts with hereditary enemies in Poland and Russia.(9) The Italian alliance by itself did not amount to very much, but it at least provided a basis for an outline of foreign policy. ... On July 27, 1920, in line with his racial dogma Hitler stated: "An alliance between Russia and Germany can only come into existence if the Jews are removed from power." ... Tho...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation impo...

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However, it was not only Germany, for the rest of Europe, recognising the growing threat of Germany and its aggressive foreign policy also began to take steps towards militarising their countries, the British budget for armaments more than doubled in the years running up to the war despite their championing of appeasement, and, one of the main incentives for Russia in the Nazi-soviet pact was that it would afford her time to reorganise her military. ... Before the outbreak of WWI the economic state of the countries involved was not major issues, Europe was booming in the post industrial revolu...

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The question of can music be political has been greatly debated over the past century, however, the works that have been debated the most are those from nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for there links with the social "cleansing" at the time in both societies. ... Lenin wrote these lines in February 1921 following the end of the Russian revolution. ... This obtained a satisfactory effect for that particular audience, but was never completely successful as the music was composed against a set of conditions, and few works provoked any interest beyond the boundaries of Russia, unlike before the ...

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World war one caused destruction to human life and property on such a scale that never had been witnessed before. The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. While the vict...

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Unemployment was extremely high, and groups were starting revolutions. ... In the Auschwitz concentration camp in the summer of 1941, 250 hospital patients and 600 Russian prisoners of war were forced into a sealed room and killed with a poison gas called Zyklon B. ...

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In December 1918, he volunteered for guard duty in a prisoner-of-war camp containing Russian and French soldiers. ... When Goring, with twenty-five brownshirts, burst into the hall Hitler leaped on to a chair and fired a shot at the ceiling, then jumped down and began to push his way on to the platform.The National Revolution? ...

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