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Media. In 2004, a cable station devoted to the music, culture, and arts of the Soviet Union, known as Nostalgiya, was launched in Russia. [23] Aside from Soviet era TV shows and movies, Nostalgiya also broadcasts a panel show, "Before and After", in which guests discuss various historical events from Soviet history.
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
e. Religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official ideology the elimination of existing religion, and the prevention of future implanting of religious belief, with the goal of establishing state atheism ( gosateizm ).
The history of computing in the Soviet Union began in the late 1940s, [1] when the country began to develop its Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. [2] Initial ideological opposition to cybernetics in the Soviet Union was overcome by a Khrushchev era policy that encouraged ...
The Special Period (Spanish: Período especial ), officially the Special Period in the Time of Peace ( Período especial en tiempos de paz ), was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 [1] primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Comecon. The economic depression of the Special Period was at its most ...
Collapse of the Soviet Union - End of Communism, Gorbachev, Glasnost/Perestroika: The collapse of the coup led to the demise of Soviet communism. The CPSU had failed to produce a modern dynamic state and society. The economic decline of the Soviet Union during the 1980s had exacerbated ethnic tensions and promoted regionalism and nationalism.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been occasional issues with hunger and food insecurity in Russia. Both Russia and Ukraine were subject to a series of severe droughts from July 2010 to 2015. The 2010 drought saw wheat production fall by 20% in Russia and subsequently resulted in a temporary ban on grain exports.
