The Russian annexation of Crimea is also against the constitution of Russian Federation. ... Crimea cannot join Russia by its will or Russia to annex Crimea. ... Impartially, the Russian annexation of Crimea is also against the constitution of Russian Federation. ... Therefore due to the deportation of Tatars and settlement of Russians in Crimea there are majority of Russians in Crimea who took part in referendum and vote to join Russian Federation. ... Most countries are putting sanctions on Russia and hence isolating Russian Government. ...

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In March 1918, the new communist government in Russia signed a treaty with Germany, extricating the Russians from the conflict entirely. ... Petersburg, Russia took a petition to Tsar Nicholas II that called for higher wages, a shorter workday, and constitutional reforms to government. ... With the tsar eliminated from power, two centers of government emerged. ... With a legitimate claim to power, the Provisional Government controlled Russia and committed itself to the continued prosecution of the war. ... Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and c...

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The maneuvering of the Austrian government during the crisis compels me to place a large portion of the blame on Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of WW I. Austria-Hungary naturally harbored a fear of Russia and seemed to operate under the expectation that a Russian clash was as inevitable as a Serbian clash. ... For Russia, it was a simple matter of backing/protecting their ally, Serbia. ... ssumed the posture of war on behalf of Serbia while the Serbian government sought diplomatic solutions to the tensions. ... Likewise, if the Kaiser set his sights on France, Russia could mobilize in...

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He then had everyone involved with the assassination and anyone close to Kirov put on trial and found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government (Purge 2). ... In 1937 a second purge trial would take place that consisted of the prosecution of seventeen leftwing defendants for "conspiracy against the government" (Purge 2). ... This terror would eventually become a major downfall of the Russian Communist government. ... Any critique of Stalin or the Russian State was swiftly squashed. ... "The Russian gulags were Stalin's punishment for any crime that was committed against him or ...

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Bismarck wanted to protect Austria-Hungary from possible Russian attacks which would eventually occur because Russia attacked Turkey. ... Two years later the Germans and Austro-Hungarians realized that Russia wouldn't attack them if they let Russia join their Alliance. ... The assassin was believed to be to have ties with a terrorist group in Serbia, this led to the conclusion that the Serbian government was behind the murder . ... World War ended between Russia and Germany with Russia surrendering because it could not take the cost of war any more .Germany and Russia signed the Treaty o...

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Russia was a protector of the Slavs with interests in the Balkans and it was intimidated by the Austrians, so Russia declared full mobilization of its troops on 30 July 1914. Consequently, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and on 3 August on France. ... The recovery of Alsace and Lorraine, which the French government regarded as essential, was not fully supported by Britain because of uncertainly about weather the inhabitants wished to be French or German. ... Russia's peasant conscripts were loath to leave their villages. Successive British governments refused to risk votes by i...

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Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... In contradiction to this, Russia however did not suffer from such social consequences, as it was not affected by the depression. ... Economic suffering had made people demand governments to take strong measures to stop further economic decline. ... Governments that failed to fight the depression caused domestic politics to become chaotic. ... Most governments implemented new taxes to help pay for the desperately needed welfare services. ...

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No other nation could have the attrition rate afforded to Russia by its vast population. ... Weather On October 2nd 1941 German troops marched on Moscow, with only 90,000 Russian soldiers defending the capital, the government was preparing to evacuate. ... Believing they would quickly topple Russia, the Wehrmacht had not prepared for Winter. ... Economy The Russian war effort was a "tremendous economic and organizational achievement." ... Economically, lend-lease was "Russia's life-saver." ...

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In Stalin's Russia, his regime of totalitarianism controlled every aspect of Russian society. ... In fact, no Russian citizen could leave the country without special government permission. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. ... The government created the National Labor Front, which banned strikes and placed smaller Fuhrers in charge of factories. ... In Russia, Stalin's Five Year Plans created temporary discomfort among the Russian people. ...

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The Red Terror in Russia differs from the genocide in Germany. ... In Russia the newly instated government used terror to maintain the recent change in the state. ... Lenin introduced the Cheka the Russian secret police similar to the SS. ... (O"Kane 1991 166) The Terror symbolised the change in government the previous government of Cuba had been tortures and murderers convicted of war crimes Castro's government promised a more humane government the terror symbolised a purging of the system. ... Terror more often than not springs from revolution as seen in China an R...

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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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As the Serbians denied this request, it is believed by some historians that the young operatives sent to kill Ferdinand were not only nationalistic students but also as scapegoats used by the Serbian government to carry out their dirty work. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... The Triple Entente was completed when Russia joined in 1907. ... Russia responded to this attack by partially mobilising and going to war against Austria-Hungary in order to protect their Slavic relatives, which was followed by Germany's demand tha...

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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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Since Poland was a very large country and situated between Germany and Russia. ... The Russians wanted a set amount of $$50 million. ... While little more than a statement of an intent to consult about he achievement of a democratic government in "liberated" Europe, is at least kept the door open for discussions to this end. ... In fact, the Stalin promised at Yalta that Romania would have free elections, but only 16 days after the conference, the Russians destroyed the democratic government instituted in the country and established communism. ... The fact that Germany took over Romania did no...

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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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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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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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In Britain, the government released DORA - the Defence of the Realm Act, which granted the government wide powers including the control of railways and shipping. ... The Ministry of Munitions, as established by the British government in 1915, assumed control over industry in order to do so. ... The government also used propoganda to encourage women to take an active role in the war effort. ... Opposition to the war continued to grow as a consequence of not only the decline in living standrads but also as a result of a number of political demands put forward due to the Russian Revolution, as ...

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On October 4th, 1918, the German government asked Wilson for a cease of fire. ... The German government easily accepted Wilson's peace program, but the French and British were timid. ... Poland's territory was taken from Russia and Germany and given back to them. ... It was missing the United States, Soviet Russia, and Germany. Russia was not included in the Treaty of Versailles. ...

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Next the government sought to train the courier operative in parachute techniques so they could infiltrate where need be. ... In June 1941 the Germans broke their treaty with the Soviet Union when the launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded Russia. ... At this stage in the struggle we could not admit to the legality of the Russian occupation of Polish territory in 1939...after the appearance of Russia on our side...we could not force our new and sorely threatened ally to abandon...regions on her frontiers which she had regarded for generations as vital to her security.... " (SA 197) Sim...

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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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