“Whereas despite the fact that on 24 December 1989 the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR condemned the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in addition to other agreements made with Nazi Germany, the Russian authorities denied responsibility for this agreement and its..…
Truman’s other motive was to deter USSR from expanding the . limits of Eastern Europe. Truman in an address to the Congress appealed for support to stop the expansion of communism. ..…
India was, at the time, no adversary of the USSR. On the contrary, the “non-aligned” orientation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the socialist policies of her Congress Party were actually friendly to Moscow, and had significant domestic Moslem support (as against the..…
In 1921, Hirschfield’s organisation, the Institute for Sexual Research, launched a ‘Congress for Sexual Reform’ which was attended by a delegate from the newly formed USSR. . ..…
In 1921, Hirschfield’s organisation, the Institute for Sexual Research, launched a ‘Congress for Sexual Reform’ which was attended by a delegate from the newly formed USSR. . ..…
In this role she lobbied Congress and U.S. Presidents on behalf of the Baltic nations and Estonian prisoners of conscience held in the USSR. Her first trip to Estonia was in 1990 as a US delegate to the Congress of Estonia, the alternative parliamentary body elected by the citizens..…
In June 1967, at the (Stalinist-controlled) Congress of Trade Unions, and after the defeat of the USSR-backed Arabs in the war against Israel, the first secretary of Communist Party Wladyslaw Gomulka, said that every Polish citizen should have only one fatherland — People’s Poland. ..…
All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, act of self-genocide. ..…
All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, act of self-genocide. ..…
Traveling from U.S to USSR and back, the activist founded American Negro Labor Congress, the organization for black communists in U.S... ..…
The Western European bourgeoisies, frightened by the Soviet model, had been supporting the European Community since the Congress convened by Winston Churchill in The Hague in 1948. However, after the disappearance of the USSR, they no longer had any interest in continuing along this road. . ..…
In the U.S, in the 1940s, streptomycin was considered a “strategic medicine,” and Congress controlled its distribution and export. There was no legal way of selling the drug to the hostile USSR. Luckily, Lina Shtern, a Swiss-Soviet biochemist, managed to convince her brother in the U.S...…
After Germany, the largest share of immigrants in the U.S. came from Russia and the countries that would become the USSR (11%, or 1.5 million). . Since 1965, when Congress passed legislation to open the nation’s borders, immigrants have largely hailed from Latin America and Asia. ..…
The fall of the USSR dried up the trade in sugar (to the USSR) and flour (to Cuba). At the Fourth Party Congress in September 1991, Castro told his comrades that the collapsing USSR had been unable to fulfill 42% of its contracts. ..…
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