In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... Both Soviet and Chinese troops would conduct patrols on many of the small islands (the majority of these islands were disputed territory between the two sides) and small skirmishes would occur. ... " He explained the reasoning behind the scissors strategy in his memoirs entitled New Lies for Old: Each blade of the communist pair of scissors makes the other more effe...

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Transcaucasus region differ from other regions for many reasons. ... Three former Soviet republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - are situated in the area between the Main Caucasian Range and the River of Araz. ... At the same time, some Proto-Georgians moved north to black Sea region and to the Valeey of Kura River, where they create their confideration called Armezi Mtskheta. ... Moreover, the Eastern cost of Black Sea region was settled by Apsilae and the Abasgoi, the ancestors of Abkhazians and Osetians populated on both sides of the Greater Caucasian Mountain Range. ... Based on the ...

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. ... Beginning with the Yalta Convention in 1945, and continuing with the Potsdam Conference later that year, the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republic became disillusioned with each other over the division of Europe. ... Western border (in compensation) shifted west at the expense of German territory up to the rivers Oder and Neisse, Poland was to gain Danzig. ... The subsequent proposal read...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. ... Stalin gave his assurances that Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe then occupied by the Red Army would not be subjected to communist control witho! ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. ... He eased his conscience by telling others, and himself, that the population of eastern Poland "wants to become Russified."" ... Yet he did not realize in doing so what other mistakes he had ma...

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These "practical contributions" were the reason of his expelling from the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907; when he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). ... It was during this period that Stalin ordered his first executions (mostly of captured Whites and other various political prisoners). ...

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