After the war, the
Soviet Union executed and deported thousands of Ukrainians accused of cooperating with the Nazis.
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Soviet Union's dissolution will be complete when the Trump regime breaks the Berlin Wall," Trump said.
These women, Anderson notes, "saw the
Soviet Union as an example of fairer state treatment of women, which included...
The treaty posed a challenge to Finland's desire for neutrality as the country tried to balance its relations with the
Soviet Union and function as a neutral country between East and West.
But if perestroika was a stab in the back, what exactly was so great about the
Soviet Union? The problem is that even in the mid-1990s, some Russian first-graders already considered the
Soviet Union to have been nothing more than an inscription on a cosmonaut's helmet.
Formed in 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--the U.S.S.R., or Soviet Union--was originally made up of Russia and three other "republics." When the
Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, its former republics became 15 separate nations.
Several decades later, the collapse of the
Soviet Union was another success for the West, particularly the United States.
While cruising through a
Soviet Union in its death throes, Nadelson confesses that she too is gripped by a sort of ostalgie.
Today, the Cold War is over, the
Soviet Union is no more, and the United States and Russia are dismantling their nuclear stockpiles.
No other defector has had access to the KGB's inner sanctum, where the
Soviet Union's top-secret, long-range plans for strategic deception were hatched.
In 1950, North Korea, backed by the Communist regimes of the
Soviet Union and China, invaded the South.