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1 day ago · Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
1 day ago · When the pact was signed, Turkey and Greece were members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while Yugoslavia was a non-aligned communist state. With the Pact, Yugoslavia was able to indirectly associate itself with NATO. Though, it was planned for the pact to remain in force for 20 years, it dissolved in 1960.
1 day ago · A neighborhood in the Kozhukhovsky Bay of the Moskva River with a large sign promoting the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, 1975. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party ...
1 day ago · Soviet and Russian. Differences from the "baseline" late Russian Tula Armory/Izhevsk Armory SKS: Variations (1949–1958): Early Spike-style bayonet (1949) instead of blade-style. Spring-return firing pin was present on early models, and they did not have chrome bores (1949 – early 1951).
4 hours ago · People wave Polish and EU flags during the pro-EU rally organized by Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Warsaw's historic Castle Square. European Parliamentary election will be held in Poland on Sunday ...
1 day ago · During the Cold War, the Middle East was a theater of ideological struggle between the two superpowers and their allies: NATO and the United States on one side, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact on the other, as they competed to influence regional allies. Besides the political reasons there was also the "ideological conflict" between the two ...
1 day ago · The route labeled as #1 is the existing one: Back in January, Amsterdam-Berlin-Warsaw signed the necessary paperwork to create the corridor. Whereby American troops and armor can already land in the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands), and then travel by train across Germany to Poland. However, the other four proposed routes have yet to be built out:
