Lenin cut a deal with Germany. If the Germans could transport him home, he would get Russia to back out of World War I. The Germans agreed and snuck him back into Petrograd through a railway car.
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But Franco made it clear that it was the government and Spain's ruling class running things, which made Spain under Franco different than fascist party-states like Germany and Italy [source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]. Lots More Information Related Articles How Communism Works How Socialism Works ...
This paper is concerned with monumental art in Slovakia before and after the fall of Communism in 1989. Generally, art in public spaces is important, because it influences the knowledge and feelings the people who use this space have about the past and the present, and thus influences the sha...
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I did survive communism and even laughed. But I’ve stopped laughing many times since. First of all, of course, because in the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the old system brought wars. What used to be our advantage over the countries in the Soviet block, a kind of “soft totalitar...
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In 1952, East Germany began policing its Western border to stop the flight of engineers, scientists and doctors to West Germany. Interestingly, the border within Berlin wasn’t as tightly controlled. “For eight years, there was that loophole,” says Boghardt, “when it was very easy for ...