And just two countries Soviet of Georgia and West African country of Ghana have younger adults. ..…

During the Cold War, the West competed with the Soviet Union to provide development loans to newly independent states and thus “bring these countries into the West’s web of control economically and politically” (17). ..…

Gorbachev, while lionized by some in West for policies that contributed to the end of Cold War and the breakup of Soviet Union, is in much of Central and Eastern Europe. ..…

The Orthodox countries in the region are further toward the east, and many were part of the Soviet Union. The Catholic countries are further toward the west, and only Lithuania was part of the USSR. . ..…

Besides keeping Western Europe - scene of two devastating wars in the century - the process of EU expansion has played in ending dictatorships Greece, Spain and Portugal, in lifting Ireland out of poverty and in rooting nations of Soviet bloc firmly in West. ..…

At one point, Soviet air forces loaded tactical nukes onto fueled-up long-range bombers prepared to strike West Germany. . ..…

Once the Soviets convinced themselves of the West’s readiness to play a fair game, a peaceful world would become a genuine possibility, and the Soviet Union—or so Costigliola speculates—might well abandon its idée fixe regarding the need for tightly controlled buffer states along its..…

The Soviet Great Terror of 1937–1938 was thus directed in large part at Soviet ethnic groups who might have connections across Soviet borders, east or west. Korea was occupied by Japan, so Soviet Koreans might be Japanese spies; every single Korean in the USSR was..…

South Yemen aligned with the USSR in the Cold War, and the North was loosely aligned with the West. . The two countries united in 1990 following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the withdrawal of Soviet aid to the South. ..…

East of the 1939 border between Germany and the Soviet Union, in places like Riga, Jews were generally shot. West of that border, for example in the Warthegau and the General Government, they were generally gassed. ..…

Richard Pipes being honored by President George W. Bush with the National Humanities Medal in November 2007. . . . The end of the Soviet Union permitted him to follow his interests in other directions, writing a book titled Property and Freedom (2000), his autobiography, and a book-length..…

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