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4 days ago · Russia (now) See Russia–Vietnam relations. USSR was an ally of Vietnam. On 30 January 1950 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established an embassy to North Vietnam. The USSR was traditionally one of Vietnam's strongest allies. Serbia: 10 March 1957 (as SFR Yugoslavia) Serbia is represented in Vietnam through its embassy in Jakarta .
5 days ago · On 1 November 1939, Polish territories annexed by the Soviet Union (i.e. Volhynia and Eastern Galicia) were incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Initially, the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland was met with limited support from the ethnic Ukrainian population. Repression was directed mainly against the ethnic Poles, and ...
3 days ago · Czech Republic *. - Czech Socialist Republic: 1970/1973/1975/ 1980: ČST: SECAM, PAL: The first color program was on February 14, 1970. Regular color broadcasts started on May 9, 1973, on second channel and on May 9, 1975, on first channel. Full color transition in 1980, switched to PAL broadcasting in 1993. ČST started color experiments in ...
3 days ago · A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945. The Gulag [c] [d] was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. [10] [11] [12] [9] The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph ...
2 days ago · The capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) until the union dissolved in 1991, Moscow attracted world attention as a centre of communist power; indeed, the name of the seat of the former Soviet government and the successor Russian government, the Kremlin (Russian: Kreml), was a synonym for Soviet authority. The dissolution ...
5 days ago · During the first years of the Soviet power Vasily Kravkov took part in the organization of the army medical bodies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In October 1918 under his guidance an ambulatory care clinic of the Administration of Affairs of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (Revvoyensoviet) was set up ...
1 day ago · Somalia, [a] officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, [b] is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is on the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti [11] to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest.
