In Iran in 1946, Kurds backed by the Soviet Union established the first genuine Kurdish government, the independent Republic of Mahabad, which lasted for one year before collapsing after Moscow withdrew its support. ..…

  Against this backdrop, most Democrats kept their distance from the socialism, while much of the public simply off as meaning tanks Moscow's Red Square.. More recently, of course, the disappearance of Soviet Union and most other Communist nations, rising inequality, the..…

In fact, the Tsar had already been forced to abdicate after the 2017 February Revolution that began in Petrograd, (later Leningrad and now St Petersburg again), then Russia’s capital city. ..…