Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... He insisted on the communist dominated Polish Committee of National Liberation that had proclaimed itself the "provisional government of ...

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we answer: "We would propose peace to all the belligerents all the oppressed, and those who do not have equal rights And we would also raise in rebellion, the Socialist proletariat of Europe against their governments."1 Lenin believed that once a revolution occurred in Russia the notions would spread to the rest of Europe, with a Communist Russia at the helm. ... He continued to state that these groups were not harmful to the government but rather worked with them. ... In 1917 Lenin created the All-Russian Commission for Suppression of Counter-Revolution, or CHEKA (Russian acronym), to...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the f...

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The consequences of these actions culminated in a series of alliances and treaties, partitioning the European powers into two groups: the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; and the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... Russia, flushed with the spirit of pan-Slavism, declared war on Austria. Germany, honoring its pact with Austria, declared war on Russia and her ally, France. ... Remarque also displays the feelings of confusion and contempt held by the soldiers, who feel as though they have been wronged not by the opposing forces, but by their own govern...

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BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class paren...

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