Lithuania's EU Vytenis Andriukaitis told Hunt he was born in Soviet gulag forced labour camp and was jailed by Soviet KGB state security agency... ... Jeremy Hunt is using my language, EU is Soviet Union, Brexit Nigel Farage said.. ..…
At least seven other post-Soviet countries are banning material they deem extremist. . ..…
Despite alarmist fears about a resurgent Russia, it is too weak to pose the same threat to Europe as the bad old Soviet Union. ... There’s nothing surprising or tragic about this, by the way; it is simply the gradual but inevitable consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the..…
To combat Soviet influence and the spread of Europe, the US implemented Marshall Plan designed to rebuild the economy of Western Europe. The assumption of the US during Cold War was that Soviet Union was rotten to the core and would collapse under political and economic pressure. ..…
Aid levels were cut in the 1990s, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union; in 1997 they were less than $20 billion, or 0.8 percent of the overall budget. ..…
There is something which he calls “Russia”, which he is conflating with the former Soviet Union, and there is something called “the West”, the two being eternal enemies. ..…
Even Jewish matzo bread, essential for celebrating Passover, was sold under Soviet times. ..…
The Soviet bureaucracy was very concerned about what was happening in Czechoslovakia, not only because the reforms that were taking place there could unleash a series of petitions in Russia similar to those from the Czech intellectuals, but also because the reforms did almost nothing to stop the..…
National solidarities of all sorts quickly reconsolidated after the breakup of the Soviet Union, as they did in the Islamic world after the collapse of the Cold War dualities that had helped keep nationalist autocrats in place. ..…
Iosif Kobzon [known Soviet and Russian singer of Jewish origins, known for his crooner style] told me a lot about that (by the way, he was not allowed into Israel because of his standpoint). . . ..…
In the course of two years Soviet in one of the backward countries of Europe did more to emancipate women and to make their status equal to that of the sex than all the advanced, enlightened, 'democratic republics of the world did in the course of 130 years... Soviet Republic, the..…
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