Gouzenko shared the classified information with him, and he agreed to assist in his protection and offered to contact the RCMP and External Affairs. ... The Soviets accused Gouzenko of stealing important confidential information from them, but refused to share what it was truly about. ... In result, the investigation was kept in secret for five months. ... Due to these secrets revealed, many more cases were exposed. ... Allan Nunn May was also found guilty of sending secret information to the Soviets. ...

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The Bolshevik's crushing of the Constituent Assembly and subsequent outlawing of all other parties showed that they were not prepared to share power. ... Every Bolshevik activist suffered at the hands of the cheka (secret police) and no opposition within the Red Army was tolerated, with execution being imposed for desertion or disloyalty. ...

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One person or an elite few who share similar views are usually in charge of the state and impose their totalitarian views upon the citizens. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace in check and terrified to rebel. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... The secret police of 1984 are known as Thought Police. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace under control and terrified to rebel. ...

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The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... Stalin used the observatory to hold secret meetings and as a hide away for the forbiden marxist literature. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrote a secret note warning that Stalin must be removed as general secretary. ... The leading Bolsheviks finally learned of the secret note warning against Stalin, but they ignored it. ...

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Despite a fundamental difference in the decision-making abilities of the two regimes, the Bolshevik's and the Tsarist regimes shared one important similarity; the agents through which their responses were enforced were very much the same. ... Fitzpatrick states that "there clearly were strong elements of continuity between the Tsarist and Soviet secret police", but that is where the similarities end. ... Thus, whilst sharing similar forms of coercive agencies, the two regimes were vastly different in their response to crisis, and their respective abilities to adjust to changing ci...

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Although they supported the Tsar in his reign they believed that he should share his power equally. They wanted a system of government that was democratic, such as the one used in Britain, this meant an elected parliament shared power with the monarch. ... They wanted all land of Russia to be given to the mirs, this would mean peasants would have a bigger share of land. ... This was to keep the Red army fed and armed, and also to keep Russia's wealth shared equally. ...

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Nuclear Weapons in Asia Nuclear weapons are used for many different reasons. Some countries develop nuclear weapons and sell the information to other countries. Nuclear weapons can be used for a country to gain recognition. Still other countries use them to present a threat to another countr...

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The Okhrana, or the 'protective section' were a group of secret police that helped Nicholas main autocratic rule, silencing those who criticised the Tsar and censoring books and newspapers. ... The second was the Social Democratic party, who wanted revolution to overthrow the Tsar and to share out wealth equally according to the needs of each individual. ...

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Theoretically, landless peasants would be the biggest beneficiaries from collectivisation, because it promised them an opportunity to take an equal share in the labour and its rewards. ... During this period, the practice of mass arrest, torture and imprisonment or execution without fair trial of anyone suspected by the secret police became commonplace. ...

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On the other hand, Kennedy was also frightened by the perspective: he secretly agreed to the Soviet demands to remove US nuclear missiles from Turkey. ... The Presidents who followed did not share his views. ...

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In 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression pact, which secretly promised Russia half of Poland, Bessarabia and the Baltic States. ... The Germans lost because of 4 main reasons, which they share with armies in history. ...

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In 1945, democracy was an ideal shared by the victors of World War //, but there are different views of democracy which become polarized between the West and the East with the advent of Cold War. ... For example, articles 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right [ICCPR] sets out the formulations of the right: every citizen shall have the right and opportunity (a) to take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly of through freely chosen representatives and (b) to vote and be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and sha...

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Nicholas did not share many of Alexander III's qualities. ... A conservative, Nicholas had no intention to change Alexander III's policies, not even the treacherous Okhrana, the secret police. ...

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Ideally, the society provided equal sharing of work, according to ability, and all benefits, according to need. ... Stalin had his own secret police to arrest people who disobey these rules. ... These were all considered as state secret. ...

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Alexandra was determined to keep the autocracy alive and she consistently urged Nicholas to ignore his ministers and their ideas of sharing power with the people. Nicholas II's corrupt system included organisations and groups such as, the secret police service, the Okhrana and Cossack soldiers. ...

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His two orders for the garrison defending the capital were first to avoid further damages to the city by surrendering, and second to form a secret military organization. ... They did not allowed other allied nations to directly use their sources, but the Poles openly shared intelligence. ...

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Stalin: GENIUS OR MONSTER? As with any human being I don't think you can label Stalin as just one thing against another. He may have been a genius or a monster or at times both, but he was never one thing. To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ...

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It was agreed that Germany should be disarmed, demilitarized and divided into zones, to be occupied by Britain, USA and Russia, the French to be cut out off the Anglo-American zone Berlin was to be divided into zones as well and shared out amongst the above countries. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises...

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