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1. Thirteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns--all under false manifests--across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Forty thousand Sovi...
2. Happy Birthdays Shelly Shelly lives in the vast Lake Superior region where the beauty of nature is in abundance. I appreciate you for all the things you do to show me love. There are many people who go the extra mile for others and you are one of them. Thank you for all th...
3. Adolf Hitler | World War II | Chancellor, Fuhrer of Germany Third Reich Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich (1933-1945). His fascist philosophy, embodied in Mein Kampf (1925-1927), attracted widespread support, and after 1934 he ruled as an absolute dictator. Hitler's pursuit...
4. Victoria Zdrok Doctor of love and sex. Presenting Victoria Zdrock
5. Matryoshka Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka dolls are set of dolls designed to nest one inside another. They are cut in half at the waist to be opened. The original set of matryoshka was originally created in Russia in 1890 by Sergei Maliutin and Vasiliy Zvezdochkin, inspired by Ja...
6. Katyn Massacre - One Of Poland's Greatest National Tragedies The Katyn massacre, also the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katynska, 'Katyn crime'), was a mass execution of Polish citizens ordered by Soviet authorities (NKVD - People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in 1940. Estimates of the number...
7. AK 47 Assault Rifle Avtomat Kalashnikova obraztsa 1947 goda is the Russian terminology for this weapon. Developed in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov for the Soviet Union. This weapon is the most prolific assault rifle in the world. The AK-47 is the #1 illegally smuggled and...
8. Charlie Wilson's War Charlie Wilson, a scandal-prone congressman from Texas, is brought to life in this book. An alcoholic and womanizer, Wilson is also a patriot. He is determined to bring the Soviet Union to it's knees. The book tells how, with the help of Gust Avrako...
9. Background of World War Two World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German i...
10. Russian Revolution In 1917, two revolutions occurred in Russia. These ended up by overthrowing the Romanov dynasty and with the establishment of the world's first communist state, the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The first revolution in February 1917, t...
11. The Empires and Enclaves of Europe If you live in an empire it may not matter that you don't like your neighbors much. You are both too busy fighting the remote government or trying to pay your exorbitant taxes. But what if that emperor goes away and you now live in a nation-state cre...
12. International Sputnik Day On October 4th, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite, named Sputnik - companion of the earth. You are invited to participate in a global party to commemorate the advent of the first truly global radio transmitter and the predece...
13. Empire Resurgent: The Second Russian Empire Under Vladimir Putin The question the West failed to ask, when US President George Bush said he had looked into Putin's eyes, and liked what he saw, was what did Putin see in Bush's eyes? He saw that he had, that Russia had, opportunity. The US was being led by oilmen in...
14. North Caucasus: Stavropol Krai At one time Stavropol and its hinterland (the Stavropol Krai) was a very important location in the Tsarist campaigns to conquer the North and South Caucasus. It is now an important manufacturing center, administrative center, and promoter of the Nort...
15. Red Dawn Today's children do not remember the Cold War. However, being born in the mid-seventies, the Cold War was an important event of my childhood. No movie ignited my imagination like the 1984 film, Red Dawn. What boy wouldn't want to be a hero in America...
16. North Caucasus: The Republic of Adygea The Adyghe (their name) or Circassian (our name) people live in several of the North Caucasian republics. In Adygea itself they are now less than 1/3 of the population, (60% Russian) and are totally surrounded by Krasnodar Krai.
17. The North Caucasus Region of the Russian Federation This lens points to the ten constituent regions (Republics, krais, oblasts) which make up Russia's troubled North Caucasus economic region.
18. Estonia's Singing Revolution Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. "The Singing Revolution" is an inspiring account of...
19. The Repatriate The Repatriate, written by journalist Tom Mooradian, is an account of the thirteen years he spent in the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War. Mooradian survived by his wits and became a basketball star for the Communist state. In spite of his a...
20. The Collective Security Treaty Organization The CSTO's organization of a Rapid Deployment Force in February 2009, together with the forced closure by Kyrgyzstan of the USAF staging base for Afghanistan, located in Kyrgyzstan, signals a new chapter in US-Russia's geopolitic.. Or, it is just ano...