Leningrad’s Siege and Russia’s Fight for Historical Truth
This rewriting of history is no accident - it is a deliberate strategy to consolidate US hegemony by downplaying Soviet ...
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Syria's new Islamist rulers to roll back state with privatizations, public sector layoffs
Economic shock therapy: plans include privatizations and slashing public sector jobs Reforms designed to avoid chaos of post-Soviet free market reforms in Eastern Europe, minister says But ...
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Demographic Divergence
Russia and the Eastern European states fall in the middle ... but not reverse the overall trend of decline throughout post-Soviet Europe. Only Central Asia and Azerbaijan will weather the ...
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Soviet-era 'Eurovision' revival: Putin's cultural diplomacy or cold war power play?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially revived the Intervision Song Contest, a Soviet-era alternative to Eurovision, with Moscow set to host the event this year. According to a decree signed ...
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3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics’ final ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe ...
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The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe
the Soviet forces moved into Germany from the East, replacing Nazi forces in a number of countries in Eastern Europe. The Americans and the British could do nothing about this while Nazi Germany ...
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The Start of the Cold War
The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold ... and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had ...
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The Cold War
Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the ... Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The 1950s brought a desire for reform in Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union reacted differently to events in Poland ...