On December 25 1991, when Mikhal Gorbatchev announced his resignation as the general secretary of the communist party, the USSR ceased to exist. ... Evidently, a nation in which more than a third of the population is poor does not constitute the best location to inhabit. ... In conclusion, it is evident that the United States of America is not the country where we should want to spend the rest of our life, because there is no public health care, more than a third of the population is poor and there are a lot of social problems in Uncle Sam's nation. Moreover, with a member of the ...

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After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... While in Nicaragua a communist party was gaining power due to the dictatorship of Somoza Garcí which initiated two years after the assassination of General Augusto César Sandino in 1934. ... On 1931 "on the shores of Lake Ilopango, a small group of workers and intellectuals formed the Communist Party of El Salvador. The new members of this newly formed party often used smart tactics in their speeches, they talked about how the system in the So...

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He was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1985. ... But not only the former leaders of the USSR were too old, many of the Party members where over 65! ... When Gorbachev came to power he knew that the USSR spent 25% more on weapons and defence system than the US, he wanted to decrease the spent on weapons and defence, because out of it the people of the USSR had a Third World standard of housing, health, transport and living standard in general. ... Also the corruption within the Party led to power struggles and mistrust. ...

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The Soviets brought the Communist Party in control and the French did not allow the formation of parties at all in their zone. In contrast to that USA and Britain assisted the development of a whole range of parties.2 In November 1946 the head of the American occupation forces Lucius D. ... Every country in Western Europe was afraid of a Soviet takeover.9 Not even the USA wanted to risk a war with them in 1948 and when it came to the Berlin Blockade the world was in fear of a third world war. ... A third world war would have been possible if the Soviets had reacted more aggressively or Ameri...

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Palmer explains: "Castro, first secretary of the Cuban Communist party, the only party permitted, ruled as a dictator. ... However, to the person growing up in a third world country, or an eastern civilization, Communism might be more attractive than their present form of government, if one exists at all. ...

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.- sponsored program to secure nuclear components in the former Soviet Union has locked up a third of an estimated 600 tons of weapons-usable material. (5) In this case the material was left behind, poorly secured, when the Soviet Union collapsed. ... The mutual deterrence that existed during the cold war, because instead of two parties fighting for the world you now have numerous parties trying to defend their own interests inside of their own area. ...

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Their defeat had a detrimental effect on the morale of the Soviet people as the mighty Red Army had been defeated by one of a third world nation. ... Within days of becoming party leader Gorbachev announced plans to restructure the economy. ...

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In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14 years of rule by the People's Democratic Party, Kabul fell to a coalition of mujahidin under the military leadership of Ahmed Shah Massoud. ... On November 9, 1989 East Germany's Communist party leader Gunter Schabowski, said that the Berlin Wall's border would be opened for "private trips abroad". ...

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Third World 'defiance states' became chess pieces between the superpowers. ... Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced militant self-defense against U.S. government brutality, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism throu...

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Even before 1939 there were old apprehensions between East and West. The West disliked communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. The Western powers supported the Anti-communists in the Russian Civil War proving that they wan...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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"Participants in the Geneva Conference were the four parties that had called for the meeting, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; also present were China, Cambodia, and Laos; and representing elements within Vietnam itself were spokesmen Bao Dai's government and for the Vietminh. ... Charter, which required previous Security Council authorization,; and third, that in any case, the United States was not legally bound to respond with force. ...

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