Beginning on February 20th, a two day period of violence erupted on both sides leaving an estimated hundred dead and hundreds injured according to health ministry in Kiev3. ... The Russian forces targeted Crimea, a large land mass south of Ukraine's mainland and west of the Russian border, due to the geographical separation from the mainland of Ukraine, which historically has been pro-Russian10. ... When Russia invaded Crimea and furthered troops into the main-land of Ukraine, it went against the interests of the international community. ... Russia, acting out of this fear of losing a cr...

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It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which ...

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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 Sta...

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