“This decision was taken by Antonescu and I wasn’t even consulted,” was how King Michael Icommentedin a 2011 interview on Romania’s entry into the war against the Soviet Union on the side of Nazi Germany. “I should also say that the Romanian people were very perturbed by the USSR...
becoming First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1938 and in 1939 - a member of the Politburo (the governing body of the Party). After the German attack, Nikita Sergeyevich was a member of the military councils of a number of fronts, ...
Like his successor Putin, Stalin saw the OUN as a serious threat to the Kremlin’s control of Ukraine and ordered his intelligence service NKVD (forerunner of the KGB in which Putin was trained) to kill its leader. NKVD officer Pavel ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at 91. He waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War.
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbache...
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91. ...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who would eventually emerge as a leader of the proletarian revolution across the world, was just 10 years old at the time. Undoubtedly, Plekhanov had a major influence on the young Lenin, who later said no one would ever become a true Communist and in good conscience...
It is possible that the publication was banned. For a very short time she was married to an architect, there were no children. After the publication of the interview with the People's Artist of the USSR Galina Ulanova, she became her close friend and assistant. They lived together in an...
A new leader will make no difference,the Permanent Government will make sure of that.Besides,Tory members keep voting for balatantly useless/deceitful candidates. Right now you’ve got the equivalent of Boris (Yeltsin);and there’s no Vladimir Putin waiting in the wings to rescue you. ...
In addition, he created the USSR, which under Stalin became an even more brutal regime, resulting in the deaths of millions more, and complicating geopolitical affairs throughout the 20th century and even the 21st century after its collapse. The initial goal of Lenin's revolution was never quit...