Soviet Union
Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (L) ties a red scarf around a boy's neck, symbolizing their initiation to the Young Pioneer youth communist group created in the Soviet Union for children 10-14 years old, in Moscow's Red square on May 20, 2012 during the organization's celebration day.
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NASA was most creative when it had to compete with the Soviet Union.
Unfortunately, [NATO] are doing nothing to reduce the narcotic threat from Afghanistan even a tiny bit ... sitting back and watching caravans haul drugs across Afghanistan to the former Soviet Union and Europe.
India has to be very alert since after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, there was a backlash in Jammu and KashmirMore quotes »
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The world in 1988, when Suu Kyi last left Myanmar
world was a different place the last time Aung San Suu Kyi left Myanmar. The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union still existed. Bangkok , the city Suu Kyi visits this week, now has towering skyscrapers, a subway and elevated rail system and slightly milder traffic Read more »
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US: NKorean prison camps worse than Soviet gulag
and being overheard by government informants.He said conditions in North Korea are worse today than in the repressive Soviet Union during the 1960s to 1980s.The committee's report described different kinds of detention facilities, including penal labor colonies Read more »
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Thomasson: History will teach us, if read
belief that the United States could accomplish what no other country has been able to achieve. Having watched the Soviet Union 's rulers commit political suicide in the mountainous hardscrabble of a nation where tribal and religious culture make it impossible Read more »
Around the web
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Kyrgyzstan: Civic Initiatives Seek to Tackle Bride-kidnapping
the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, ala kachuu, or bride kidnapping, has become a common occurrence in Kyrgyzstan's provincial towns and villages. Although registered as a crime under Kyrgyzstan's criminal code, the government has consistently 6/1/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »
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One-party system fails D.C.
Democratic Party in the District of Columbia is what the Communist Party was to the former Soviet Union: a sure path to power. Is that a good thing? Not the way D.C. Democrats get themselves elected. They achieve that much-sought end through a closed-primary 6/1/12 from The Washington Post Read more »
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Kyrgyzstan: Civic Initiatives Seek to Tackle Bride-kidnapping
the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, ala kachuu, or bride kidnapping, has become a common occurrence in Kyrgyzstan's provincial towns and villages. Although registered as a crime under Kyrgyzstan's criminal code, the government has consistently 6/1/12 from Global Voices Online Read more »
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An SR-71 Blackbird Tail Fin Is For Sale On eBay For $1 Million [Planelopnik]
it debuted in 1964, the SR-71 Blackbird — the mean looking surveillance aircraft that cruised high above the Soviet Union at speeds of up to mach 3.5 — cost the U.S. Air Force $34 million per air frame. Do you think this fraction of a supersonic spy plane 6/1/12 from Jalopnik Read more »
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Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Tweaks Kremlin
edict was issued had to be re-edited before they could be aired. The Great Patriotic War remains the most widely used term in the CIS to describe the conflict. The term was first used just days after Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. 6/1/12 from EurasiaNet Read more »
