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Category Archives: Soviet Union
END OF THE SOVIET UNION; The Soviet State, Born of a Dream, Dies By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Published: December 26, 1991 Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/26/world/end-of-the-soviet-union-the-soviet-state-born-of-a-dream-dies.html The Soviet state, marked throughout its brief but tumultuous history by great achievement and terrible suffering, died today after a long and painful decline. It was 74 years old. Conceived in utopian promise and born in the violent upheavals of the “Great October Revolution of 1917,” the union heaved its [...]
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Tagged Commonwealth of Independent States, Communism, END OF THE SOVIET UNION, failure of the U.S.S.R., glasnost, Great October Revolution of 1917, Lenin, Marxist system, Mr. Gorbachev, Nikita S. Khrushchev, resignation of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet empire, Soviet superpower, Stalin, the defeat of Nazi Germany, the fall of the Soviet Union, the first Sputnik, The Soviet state
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50 years ago, the Berlin Wall arose to divide
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44060292/ns/travel-news/ A city divided The Berlin Wall was erected to separate East and West Berlin following the wider partition of Germany after the Second World War. Standing from 1961 to 1989, it became a symbol of the broader Cold War conflict. Half-controlled by Western forces, the city was geographically in the middle of the Soviet [...]
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Tagged 50th anniversary of the building of the wall, Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, Berlin Wall, Communist-controlled dictatorship, East and West Berlin, East Germans, Marxist-Leninist beliefs, Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic, the cold war
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