The United States was secretly selling sophisticated missiles to Iran and promising more. It was during this time that the United States covertly shared military intelligence on Iraq with Iran. ... The NSC staff was secretly assuming direction and funding of the Contras' military effort. ... Although the NSC was not so authorized, the NSC staff secretly became operational and used private, non-accountable agents to engage in covert activities. ... Members of this covert operation sought illicit funding for the Contras through profits from the secret arms sales. ...

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Theoretically, landless peasants would be the biggest beneficiaries from collectivisation, because it promised them an opportunity to take an equal share in the labour and its rewards. ... During this period, the practice of mass arrest, torture and imprisonment or execution without fair trial of anyone suspected by the secret police became commonplace. ...

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The assassin--who had been hired by the secret police, the NKVD--was shot, along with all his close relatives (this would become a typical Stalinist tactic). ... This was followed, in January of 1935, by the arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev themselves, along with a number of their allies; they would be tried in secret, accused of having "inspired" Kirov's assassination, and given long jail terms. ...

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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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Abstract The American dream comes to mind to most of us when overlooking some of the greatest accomplishments that some of our most inspiring American icons have achieved. Ronald Reagan is just one of the many hundreds of role models that our society is appreciative of. As the fortieth president of ...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... Americans viewed the Soviet denial of the Yalta agreements as enmity between the two nations, which could in effect develop into a war, with the power to destroy humanity, hence both the United States and the USSR shared responsibility for the origin of the Cold War. ...

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It was agreed that Germany should be disarmed, demilitarized and divided into zones, to be occupied by Britain, USA and Russia, the French to be cut out off the Anglo-American zone Berlin was to be divided into zones as well and shared out amongst the above countries. ...

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