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SOURCE: Just Security
3/9/2022
How the Soviet Union Helped Establish the Crime of Aggressive War
by Francine Hirsch
Putin's claims to "denazify" Ukraine are an egregious affront to the historical role of the Soviet Union in establishing the Nuremberg tribunal, and its insistence in prosecuting aggressive war itself as a crime.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/20/2020
Donald Kendall, Who Built Pepsico into a Soda and Snack-Food Giant, Dies at 99
The late president of Pepsi-Cola was a leader in bringing American products to the Soviet bloc and Communist China during the cold war and was influential in pushing Richard Nixon to support the CIA's coup against democratically-elected socialist Salvador Allende in Chile.
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SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
12-18-2018
Historian Of Stalin-Era Crimes In Court For Sexual Assault, His Second Trial This Year
The trial of Yury Dmitriyev, a Russian historian charged with sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, has started in the northwestern region of Karelia.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
12/17/2018
Communist Parades Gave the CIA What They Needed
Some of the best opportunities for Western intelligence to get a picture – literally – of Soviet capabilities were presented by the USSR itself at public military parades.
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
11-13-17
The cautionary tale of the Bolshevik revolution
by Niall Ferguson
A century ago it was the West’s great blunder to think it would not matter if Lenin and his confederates took over the Russian Empire. Incredible as it may seem, I believe we are capable of repeating that catastrophic error.
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SOURCE: NY Review of Books
11-7-17
Putin’s Russia: Revolution, What Revolution?
by Anastasia Edel
Today, the official birthday of the USSR, is no longer part of Russia’s holiday canon.
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10-28-17
The One Thing that Two Big Anniversaries This Month Have in Common
by Ed Simon
One celebrates the founding of the USSR, the other Protestantism. They involve theology (as does all politics).
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9-17-17
When the USSR Waged War Against Israel. (No, that’s Not a Misprint.)
by Karl Pfeifer
An interview with Gideon Remez.
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SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
7-11-17
Fake history: Sadat expelled the Soviets
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Almost everybody believes it’s true including Henry Kissinger (as related in his memoirs). It’s not.
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SOURCE: Political Wire
5-26-17
Trump Angled for Soviet Posting In the 1980s
“Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.”
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SOURCE: Forbes
12-26-16
The Woman Who Killed the Soviet Union
by Ralph Benko
She was a Texas socialite who got a congressman to back the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
6-23-16
U.S., Britain Developed Plans to Disable or Destroy Middle Eastern Oil Facilities
British Plans Envisioned Using Nuclear Weapons as an Option in Iran and Iraq, According to Declassified Documents
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SOURCE: New Historian
4-20-16
€185 billion – the Cost of the USSR’s Occupation Of Latvia
The findings reopen a longstanding debate about the debts that former imperial powers owe to the countries they once occupied, and whether they should be repaid.
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SOURCE: Nautilus
4-9-15
How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union
by Slava Gerovitch
Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3-11-15
30 years ago today the world changed
That's when the USSR put Mikhail Gorbachev in charge.
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SOURCE: NYT Book Review
11-26-14
NYT lauds newest biography of Stalin. It's by Stephen Kotkin.
Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."
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SOURCE: WaPo
5-7-14
Why May 9 will be a date to watch in Ukraine
To some Ukrainians, World War II was a fight against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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