We must not forget that during all of this, an incredibly brutal civil war was being fought, and Soviet Russia was blockaded and being starved by the western imperialists. ... Originally in Russia, Vesenkha was formed as a supreme economic soviet beside the political one,..…
As Russia this week marks the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, the memories of the war are still fresh for female nurses and clerks and shopkeepers, mostly young and single, who were thrust into the disastrous campaign that came to known as Russia’s Vietnam. ... As..…
Nikita Mendkovich, Moscow-based on Afghanistan, said Russia's economic meltdown triggering the fall of Najibullah... Kabulov charged that U.S ignored Soviet lessons and made the same mistake in trying to foster the creation of Western-style Afghanistan... ..…
In 2005 movement unprecedented post- Soviet Russia halted austerity-driven reforms and forced government rethink opposition focused on the monetisation of social benefits, the proposed reduction of benefits in kind such as transport and health, available to many. ..…
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