quite the opposite happened. Because the United States supplied the Allied forces with food, weapons, and military equipment, World War II created a booming wartime economy for the States. The Second World War was such a boon to the American economy that it actually ended the Great...
We forever try to push into the unknown, from claiming territory across an ocean, to reaching for the stars. Setting our sights so high does come with risks. The Space Shuttle Columbia experienced one such risk as it returned from space....
TheRussian Revolution of 1917led to the formation of theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR) under Vladimir Lenin in 1922. By the 1930s, Lenin’s brand of moderate communism had been replaced by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which underJoseph Stalin, exerted absolute government ...
What happened after the Soviet Union collapsed? What problems and events caused the Russian Empire to decline? What were the policies of glasnost and perestroika? What unintended consequence did perestroika have? What event symbolized for the world the fall of Soviet communism? What social changes ...
usually from sturgeon.According to Tamara Korshunova, an employee at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, she and her family survived on a tin of caviar during the siege of Leningrad in 1941 and 1942. Her family happened upon an expensive yet for-sale can of caviar at a local...
Surprisingly this unfortunate choice of religion for Poland also became a pillar of strength under a hostile state. After the Second World War, Stalin led USSR came to rule Poland. Much bloodshed happened and the communists perpetrated unimaginable atrocities on Poles, working on old ethnic hatred ...
Subprime auto loans have also been blowing out. In the third quarter, the serious delinquency rate of the $1.3 trillion in auto loans has risen to 4.71%, the highest since the worst months of the Financial Crisis, when the auto industry collapsed, and when the US was facing the worst une...
Even though it's a shitty example of communism; the USSR. Absolutely pasting the West in terms of economic growth for decades, and so wildly successful it turned a backwards nation into a global superpower. This is simple historical fact. And no, that it collapsed is not an...
But not everyone believes this official line about Hitler's end. That's why Matt Frederick, Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown tackle the history and intrigue behind What Happened to Hitler? in this episode of the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast. One of history's greatest villains, Hit...
From an MR perspective, the story essentially concludes itself right there. This country was never truly sovereign because it was essentially a currency user when the new regime was established and Russia was saddled with the foreign denominated debts of the old USSR. In other words, ceding your...