On the other hand Russia got support from the US when Russia was attacked by Great Britain and France in 1855. ... The US government thought that the Russians were spies or a sort of comintern member. ... In Fact, the "Russian Mafia" consists of people attending many ethnic groups, but hardly any Russians. ... The CRA (Congress of Russian Americans) is an organization that tries to improve the life of Russians in the US. ... Life is not easy for Russian-Americans. ...

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Through coercive tactics this new government seized power in 1917 and Lenin came to power. ... These purges would later spread all throughout the government and into the public. ... This was the organizational restructuring of the Soviet economy and government apparatus. ... By February 1992, approximately ninety per cent of consumer goods were being sold without any form of government control. ... He directed much of his energy toward Chechnya, whose government had been trying to secede from Russia since 1991. ...

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The government confiscated all the agricultural products. ... Lenin made himself the dictator and uses terror as his chief instrument to rule over Russia. ... He was the head of the Soviet Communist party and the Russian Government in 1929. ... With the tactics coercion and force and the military, the citizen of Russia were like a puppet that were controlled by the Communist government; they know nothing about the politics or about the government. ... In the beginning, communism was a utopian ideal, which sounded outstanding to the Russian. ...

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The aftermath of the second world war left the US and Russia as the highest dominant military powers, but they had completely different government regimes and economic regimes. ... The new Bolshevik Government had also signed a ceasefire treaty with Germany and negotiated a peace-treaty, The treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia's allies, the French and British, felt betrayal from Russia as they backed out from the war. ... This was false and at the face of this new threat, Russia quickly realized its 'allies' were in no rush to help them contain Hitler and his new system of Nazism a...

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Moreover, he was called to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and that didn't trust the government's promises and actions. ... With these policies, Gorbachev planned to modernize Russia. ... He also encouraged the Russian population to express themselves. ... CNN Interactive (Russian Archive). ... Available: http://www.cnn.com Everything about Russia. ...

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They obtained it from Russia years ago. ... If the government decides to install a system on both Airforce one and Marine One, that is $6 million of taxpayer money. ... Russia and China the two other big superpowers will go on alert because the U.S is spending Billions to protect itself from tiny nations that can easily be defeated, nations whose government has no desire to attack the U.S. ... What is going to happen in Afghanistan when the U.S "helps" to set up a temporary government? ... The U.S did help to set up the new Israeli government and now it is on thin ice. ...

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Russia issued a new currency, which caused trouble in Berlin. Russia imposed a blockade of western Berlin, which lasted eleven months. ... Russia moved entire German factories from Germany to Russia. ... In 1954, the Russian Government made East Germany and independent state with power to make its own internal affairs. ... The new government had no intention of changing the Federal Republic Governments policy towards the East. ...

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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. ... Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? ... Kennan's public debate about halting the growing expansion of the very powerful and newly Communist Russia. ... With this argument stated and Russia feeling threatened because they know how the United States does business, it set off a whole line of explosions (not the destructive kind usually seen in ...

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Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... He insisted on the communist dominated Polish Committee of National Liberation that had proclaimed itself the "provisional government of ...

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However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. ... 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." ... He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. ... Hist...

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The real amount of missing weapons grade material could be up to 10 times higher than estimated. (7) Comparatively few smuggling incidents are reported, and many are not known about until the traffickers are caught, and the material traced back to its source. (8) In some cases the investigations have led to the mafia and high positions in the Russian, and other governments. (6) The collapse of the Soviet Union has made smuggling radioactive materials from Russia and its former territories frightingly easy. ... The Russian parliament has yet to ratify. ... (4) In addition, the START treatie...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... Nikita Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia. ... He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ... The Cuban government later released the captured exiles after a ransom was paid. ... In reality we have to look no further than the American government. ...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... Later, his government reversed most of Stalin's deportations although it was not until 1991 that the Tatars, Meskhs and Volga Germans were allowed to return to their homelands. ... Both men desperately wanted Russia to catch up to the western European states. Both succeeded to an extent, turning Russia temporarily into Europe's leading power. ...

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Thus states would not respect their political obligations unless the fear of punishment is present, the need for states to have power, economic and military, is necessary to bind governments to upholding treaties, international laws, and alliances. ... One such state was Cuba, which became an ally of Russia. ... Eventually the U.S. and Russia approach the threshold of nuclear war over the installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. ... The U.S. government also promised if one of the U-2 spy planes were fired upon orders would be give for an attack on the Cuban SAM missile sites. ... While the ...

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In Hungary, the Communist government initiated reforms in 1989 that led to the sanctioning of a multiparty system and competitive elections. ... After surviving a hard line coup attempt in 1991, Gorbachev was forced to cede power in Russia to Boris Yeltsin, who oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. With the Tsarist autocracy, and the highly ineffective provisional government of Kerensky in the recent memory of the people of Russia, Lenin found a receptive ...

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Nye refers to the following countries as the main contenders to the heavy weight belt of world dominance: China, Japan, Russia, India and Europe as the European Union. ... The main downfall of China is the communist ideology of their government. ... Russia, throughout the past couple decades, until its fall, had been considered the United States" number one competitor. ... Russia has been on a downward spiral since the fall of communism and will take a great deal of time to overcome. ... Does the media create a skepticism of government? ...

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Alcoholism was rife, as people sought solace in the time honoured Russian tradition of drinking vodka. ... The Russian's also used humour to cope with the reality of a socialist existence. The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. ... The government's deficit was growing larger and imports were expanding. ... This was a policy of economic reform via privatization and reduced government expenditure. ...

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Kennedy's under lying sentiments in his speech on Russia's Gibson II nuclear stance around the world in the first week in October 1962 could have been the catalyst to have changed the out come of the Cuban missile crisis, the above quote was what set Russia to end the diplomatic stale mate and launch against the united sates and we to retaliate in the same. ... With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. ... Without power, communication and the abil...

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In their northern zone the Soviets set up a puppet Communist clique and trained a Communist army, Deter minded to prevent the formation of a free South Korean government, the Russians fought against its establishment. On June 25 1950, A North Korean army - Russian-trained, Russian equipped, and presumably Russian-inspired- suddenly lunged southward across the borderline 38th parallel with the object of engulfing UN-sponsored South Korea. ... Macarthur had wanted to do, America government itself, in its "greater Sanctions" (Stokesbury 257). ... But what if atomic bomb actually had stroke on Chi...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... Truman caused relations with the Russians to worsen right away by submitting the Truman doctrine which "aided" Turkey and Greece by freeing them of communist rule, many more were killed. ... They were responsible for condemning Ethel and Julius Rosenberg as they were put to death for giving secrets to the Russians. ... The U.S. government violated their rights by interrogating "suspects" and asking if they were communists or ever had been. ... An arms race continues with the Russ...

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According to this agreement, both Britain and Russia would have 90% dominance in Greece and Romania respectively; Russia would have predominance in Bulgaria with 75%; and in Hungary and Yugoslavia the influence of the two great powers was balanced, each having 50% share equally. ... At its height, the Nazi Germany conquered most the Europe, and when Germany would be defeated, this would leave larger part of the continental Europe without any meaningful administrations or governments. The conventional forms of governments in Europe had been discredited, particularly in the East of Europe where ...

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However, the main countries involved, or the ones leading the two sides were the United States and Russia. The United States led the fight against Communist nations, like Russia. ... The Russians were always being viewed as the toughest rival and the team to beat according to the US. ... Some of them depicting how awful the Russians were or how supreme the Americans were. ... Most of these people were intellectuals (writers and academics), government officials, political figures, teachers, college professors, and entertainers. ...

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During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... The Czar Nicholas II knew his time was up and fled Russia a few days later, ending a 300 year old legacy. The temporary government was put in place, sharing some power with the revolutionaries. Lenin the leader of the Bolshevik party, started to rally the people, and by October, they had seized power of the government. ... One of Stalin's first moves as leader of the Soviet Union was to replace Lenin's New Economic Policy with a series of government controlled five year plans. ...

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This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. The russian prime minister Nikita Chruschtschow now could call JFK and the USA as aggressors and threaten with an intervention on Cuba. ... The U2 discovers russian nuclear missiles. 20.10. ... The russian prime minister did not get an answer of the USA - they ignored this deal. 28.10. ... -In the years 1963 - 1967 the USA first, then the SU, followed later on by France and Great Britain introduced a direct contact between the different governmental au...

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On December 25, 1991, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russia. ... Workers gathered and formed non-government organizations to fight against the communist government. ... A report of Polish Government in 1987 stated that U.S. ... Government's dishonesty triggered people's high indignation toward the government. ... Taking the advantage of Gorbachev's failure in reforms, he started the Russian Republic and won nearly 90 percent of the vote i...

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