USSR

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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.