The economic problems of Russia were serve people were starving because they couldn't afford the food or there just wasn't enough, the factory's were only producing enough ammunition to give each soldier that had a weapon three bullets a day, boots and clothing was also scarce for the soldiers. The soldiers had to wait for one of their comrades to die or be injured before they could acquire a gun and specific articles of clothing. ... But they were also the soldiers. ... The working class people went on huge general strike and when the army was sent to break the rally up the sol...

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By the end of it, tens of thousands of soldiers were dead, and almost one million civilians lost their lives in the conflict. ... Later that month the Soviet Union, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, invaded Afghanistan with over 85,000 soldiers [Chr08]. ... The use of these deadly weapons did not do much good for the Russians, it had little effect on the guerrilla fighters, but the civilian casualties were enormous. ...

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An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... The revisionists would say that those actions were only defensive and were justified after Russia had lost about twenty million soldiers and civilians in the German attack. ... Both sides wanted their values and economic and political systems to prevail in areas which their soldiers had helped to liberate. ... Although the Soviet Union has collapsed in 1991 and "lost" the Cold war, America has still pretty much the same position of the "World p...

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For example, in Strike the nature of the slaughter perpetrated by the Cossack army is conveyed by juxtaposing scenes of advancing soldiers with a bull being slaughtered and ink being spilt over a street-map of the city being attacked. ...

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It's clear to see the fact that presently, countries don't attack countries with cavalry or soldiers instead they usually sit back buy bombs and missiles before causing devastation to countries and cities in an instant. ... During the Roman Empire the most popular dish would have been pottage which was a mixture of a variety of vegetables and some meat as well as that it was either eaten with rice or cooked with risotto to eat as a scrumptious dish with bread (it wouldn't actually taste very good in that time period compared to what we could make these days however it would be e...

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Mistreatment of the Soldiers The bad treatment that the emperor was causing was not only aimed at the people, but also his own army that were loyal to him. ... The war further spiked the need for men as soldiers and horses and Tsar took it all from the peasants who were really made angry by this acts. ...

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In the early 20th century, the Soviet Union began to experience a sweeping proletarian revolution, as well as rapid industrialization. This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. Along with a transformatio...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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