Abstract The Soviet-Afghan war, in my opinion, is a very important and forgotten part of history. ... Some say that this war was Russia's very own version of Vietnam. ... Amin started to disagree with Russia on the idea of a total communist government, and began talks with the west. ... Their Knowledge of the mountain ranges and vast deserts of the country gave them the ability to successfully ambush Russian supply convoys, giving them access to Russian weapons and cutting supply lines to the Soviet Army. ... The almost 10 year war resulted in more than 30,000 Russian deaths and over 200,...

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The areas of ethic conflict were: "Russia (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Ukraine(Crimea), Moldova(Transdnistria), Latvia and Estonia (Russian minorities), Georgia(Abkhazia, South Ossetia), Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), Central Asia (Kazakhstan's Russian minority; the Ferghana valley; Tajikistan's civil war)" (www.lse.ac.uk ). ... Russia was having a policy of Russification and forcing the nations to be like Russian. ... Canada is the satellite of USA, and USA has never had much trouble with it in history because she did not try to exploit Canada. ... Although Russia had lost...

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Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev's main opponent from the Russian Republic, announced the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ... Russia did become a developed nation under communist rule, but other problems soon deteriorated any stability it might have gained during the years of Lenin and Stalin. ... "The red flag with its hammer and sickle, the symbol of Soviet communism, was lowered from over the Kremlin at 7:32 P.M., to be replaced by the white, blue, and red flag of the Russian republic. The first and mightiest society based on the ideas of Karl Marx had passed into history....

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The Cold War involved just about the whole world but mainly the United States and Russia. ... The Cold War for Russia, was to ensure security, block out capitalism, gain power and improve their economy. ... Both Russia and the United States wanted to avoid World War III in the process of tying to achieve their goals. ... China was faced with the need for military and economic aid which it eventually received from Russia. ... Thirty million Chinese starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, making it one of the worst man-made disasters in history. ...

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Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany" This would give the USSR edge over the Western allies in the fight for control over Berlin and consequently Germany. ... "Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941 forced a four-year partnership upon the Soviets and Americans," as LaFeber illustrates on page 5 provides that notion even though there was "m...

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Josef Stalin's use of mass murder and extermination was perhaps the most horrific act in history. His complete disregard for human life was basically unmatched by any other dictator in history. He covered the entire country of Russia in a blanket of fear, the fear that their life could be taken at any moment for having the slightest connection to anything that Stalin disliked. ... The country had a history of being weak in the face of any exerted governmental power, which is basically summed up in document 11. ...

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The Russians were behind it all in East Germany; communism, the Berlin Wall, training soldiers, and stopping riot. The Russians, or known as The Soviet Union in that time, got East Germany and many other countries at the end of World War II. ... The History Of the Berlin Wall The scene that stuck the most to me was when they killed Peter Fechter. ... The history was pretty accurate on the account of the Berlin Wall. ...

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Khrushchev marked four problems with this phenomenon: - Violations of law and mass repression; - Failures and subjective decisions of Stalin during World War II; - Breach of the principle of collective leadership in the Party; - Stalin's actions aimed to exalt his role in the history of the Party and the state. ... He said: "People will say that as long as Stalin was, everybody obeyed, there were no shocks, and now, after "they" came to power, Russia was defeated and lost Hungary." ... In all, we can say that Khrushchev speech was the breaking moment for all socialist camp, which after...

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(The History of Hungary) About one million Hungarian died during the war for these reasons. ... (Hungary 1956) On October 23, hundreds of workers and students marched through the streets of Budapest while shouting "Out with the Russians," and "Down with Gero." ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. Anyone who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. ...

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As they rekindle their love for each other Russian tanks move into Prague and they are again separated. ... Though Von Trotta's subordinates the history of the German divide it still plays a huge part in the film. ... I always think people are not living up history like historians but very fragmentary, in an individual and personal way. In this case the love story is conditioned by the wall and by great history. For me it is always interesting to tell a story from the life of persons, then looking from the individual to the history." ...

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NATO came into existence during a turbulent period of history. ... Although Russia was an ally of the United States during the war, a period of suspicion, arguing, spying, and competition began between the two countries and their allies, following the defeat of Nazi Germany. ...

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Despite a similar history shared by Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins deeply rooted animosities, which have lead to the outbreak of all out, war in the past decade. ... Using his natural charisma and impressive war record, Josip Tito was able to do what few leader in history have been able to do. ... I can imagine that many people asked the question: "Well if they"re not affiliated with the Russians then why aren't they a capitalist democracy?" ...

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