The United States then took advantage of this situation and were able to profit from The Union's "imperialist exploitation of other countries,"2 while socialism only had an economic loss in that competition. ... An example of this would be the fact that any citizen could not even buy a good pair of leather boots, a good television set or a computer made in the Soviet Union, because all the boots and the electronics were swallowed up by military usage.3 This led to there being few to no quality goods to export in order to balance their imports. ... Some workers were sent to respo...

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The United States then took advantage of this situation and were able to profit from The Union's "imperialist exploitation of other countries,"2 while socialism only had an economic loss in that competition. ... This led to there being few to no quality goods to export in order to balance their imports. ... Some workers were sent to respond to the disaster and were ordered to encase the reactor in concrete. ... " This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. ... " By i...

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At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. ... Or was there perhaps, in his rants against the Jewish people, a hidden, practical, political reasoning behind them? ... He goes on to verbally trash everything which Jews have accomplished, saying that "there has never been a Jewish art and accordingly there is none today either; that[]architecture and music, owe nothing original to the Jews" (Hitler 303). ... Not only were Jews evil, they were also the reason behind which Germany was attacked and defeated by the English and French forces. ... As Flood puts it, "Hitl...

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There only lay a few periods of stability sprinkled throughout these 200 years. ... The Mongols insisted that they were not there to conquer, however the group of princes decided otherwise and murdered the Mongolian representatives. ... However these governors, or basqaqi, were only put in place where there was still unrest and the citizens of that area were not completely accepting Mongolian rule. ... The ones whose lives were spared were usually thrown and forced into slavery. ... Then the Orthodox Church would build houses around the monasteries forcing those who inhabit those houses to co...

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During the course of World War II there were a number of turning points that impacted the outcome of the World War II. ... The soviets also known as the red army in towns around Stalingrad had started to cut of Germanys forces to and from Caucasus, in return the German forces were forced to withdraw, allowing the Russians the get the upper hand on Germany and ruining there plans of cutting off access to the oil reserves and factories. ... The German war prisoners were compelled on death marches or they were put to work on repairing/rebuilding Stalingrad, most or many of them weakened by star...

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There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. ... Although in reality, US soldiers would not see combat until 1918 and even then only for months rather then the Brits who had been involved for years. ... World War II saw the induction of modern day tactics, modern day technology, and the idea of global domination was in fact an idea of the past that should stay there. Alliances were made in the colossal clash of arms that stand today, but none as strong and stable as that of England with the United States. ... Reparations and the war crimes trials ...

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However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a line, no Iron Curtain; rather, there existed a more complex web of international relations, because of the physical presence of three great powers: the Soviet Union, China and Japan. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. In the 19...

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Both his parents were peasants. ... There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. ... Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... There he resumed the editorship of Pravda. ... Ultimately, though, Stalin's defense of the region proved unsuccessful, the Red Army units in the area lost 60.000 men while he was there, and the Whites were later able to capture the city and hold it for an extended period. ...

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