Each republic within the Soviet Union had its own First Secretary, who served as the head of both the Communist Party and the government. Typically, these leaders came from the dominant ethnic group of their respective republics. However, during periods of political instability or crisis, exception...
The Soviet Union (USSR) had been a major power broker and influential mentor in Afghan politics. Its involvement ranging from civil-military infrastructure to Afghan society.[95] Since 1947, Afghanistan had been under the influence of the Soviet government and received large amounts of aid, ...
Map showing greatest territorial extent of the Soviet Union and its allies in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 Moscow considered Eastern Europe to be a very vitalbuffer zonefor the forward defense of its western borders. For this reason...
Soviet Union fine words » Govorit i pokazivaet Moskva来源: Freesound 前往原页面 查看译文 作者: Prokur 许可: CC-BY-NC 非商业署名许可协议 描述: This phrase was very popular in USSR times in former Soviet countries. Television news started with those words. English translation: "Attention...
These drills were the very first electric hand-drills to be manufactured in the Soviet Union. In fact, one of the requirements in deciding what the commune would produce was that whatever it was to be, it should free the country from depending on its import. To cope with the commune's ...
Soviet Union Military Bases Abroad Since 1939, when the Workers and Peasants Red Army established first garrisons in independent Baltic States, the Soviet Union began rapid military expansion outside of its borders. The Baltic States acceptance of soviet military buildup in their ter...
The mobilization reached a peak during the week of 12 to 19 November. The slogans referred to both Ukrainian patriotism and the love of the great Soviet Union: ‘We are part and parcel of the great Ukrainian people’, ‘the land is Soviet land from Uzhgorod to the Kremlin’.54 The role...
I was new to this, not having personally experienced the Soviet Union and found what transpired during the evening of the celebration to be fascinating.As it happens I was on the street at 6 p.m. on that day, just in time to see a crowd emerging from a subway entry on my block. ...
Alpert’s image holds a special place in the Russian imagination and has been immortalized in monuments in the former Soviet Union. The bronze statue at left is in Stepove; the stone monument at right is in Zaporizhia, both in southern Ukraine, where Yeremenko, who was Ukrainian, was killed...
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. It arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party that broke off from the r