Ceausescu profited from the situation and was given power as president at the age of forty-eight. ... Now we finally saw your villa on television, the golden plates from which you ate, the foodstuffs that you had imported, the luxurious celebrations, pictures from your luxurious celebrations. ... This primary source shows the irony that the people did not have enough food to eat and Ceausescu's family was eating food with golden utensils. ...

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1. Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. The most famous line ever uttered by President Ronald Reagan was "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General...

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Bukharin was known as "the golden boy- of the party, and was a firm favourite with Lenin. ... It can be considered that the only reason he was not in a more prominent position to be Lenin's successor was because of his age- he was considered to be too young. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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