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4 days ago · The Soviet Union attempted to give the impression that it was a monolithic structure in which political differences had disappeared, and that a state and society had been created which were entirely cohesive. But, internal debate continued to flourish.
2 days ago · Soviet Union, former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now ...
4 days ago · But later, after US-China relations thawed, the landscape of Northeast Asia changed. China’s diplomatic goal was to unite the US against the Soviet Union, and North Korea’s diplomatic goal was ...
4 days ago · Soviet troops entering Prague in August 1968 to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement. On the evening of August 20, 1968, Soviet-led armed forces invaded Czechoslovakia. The Soviets seized Dubček, Černík, and several other leaders and secretly took them to Moscow.
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4 days ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
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5 days ago · Stalin‘s distrust of the Western powers, stemming from their intervention in the Russian Civil War and their perceived hostility towards the Soviet Union, influenced his decision to seek an alternative approach to ensuring Soviet security.
1 day ago · Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On September 1, 1983, the flight was shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor aircraft.
