According to Allende's KGB file, Allende " was made to understand the necessity of reorganising Chile's army and intelligence services, and of setting up a relationship between Chile's and the USSR's intelligence services ".

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people, was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace, in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good.

Eysenck left Nazi Germany to live in Britain, and was not shy in attacking Stalinist ' communism ' ( which he regarded as representative of communist ideology ), noting the anti-Semitic prejudices of the Russian government, the luxurious lifestyles of the USSR's leaders despite their talk about equality and the poverty of their people, and the Orwellian " doublethink " of East Germany's naming itself the German Democratic Republic despite being " one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world today.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

Material based on reports from the Mitrokhin Archive, the KGB said of Allende that " he was made to understand the necessity of reorganising Chile's army and intelligence services, and of setting up a relationship between Chile's and the USSR's intelligence services ".

Thus, the Russian Federation was widely accepted as the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic affairs and it assumed the USSR's permanent membership and veto in the UN Security Council ( see Russia and the United Nations ).

Luna 4 ( E-6 series ) was the USSR's first successful spacecraft of their " second generation " Luna program.

It was hoped that the USSR's industrial base would reach the level of capitalist countries in the West, to prevent them being beaten in another possible war.

She was decorated with the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, the USSR's highest award.

Its goal was to contain the Soviet Union ( USSR ) by having a line of strong states along the USSR's southwestern frontier.

Because Poland was then considered, in Soviet military doctrine, to be the USSR's main enemy, the Soviet Revolutionary Military Council took this erroneous information into consideration and decided to pass the aforementioned foreign tanks into Red Army service, starting their production immediately without waiting for completion of development works, in order to counter possible aggression.

The document was seen both as a significant step toward reducing Cold War tensions and as a major diplomatic boost for the Soviet Union at the time, due to its clauses on the inviolability of national frontiers and respect for territorial integrity, which were seen to consolidate the USSR's territorial gains in Eastern Europe following the Second World War.

Morison told investigators that he sent classified satellite photographs to Jane's because the " public should be aware of what was going on on the other side ", meaning that the Soviets ' new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would transform the USSR's military capabilities.

One of this federation's constituent republics, the Russian Federation, was declared the USSR's successor state on the grounds that it contained 51 % of the population of the USSR and 77 % of its territory.

Only 11 percent of the USSR's land was arable.

The gas industry flourished as well, and Ukraine became the site of the first post-war production of gas in the Soviet Union ; by the 1960s Ukraine's biggest gas field was producing 30 percent of the USSR's total gas production.

The USSR's force was of little threat to the US, on the other hand, as it was tasked almost entirely with attacking US convoys in the Atlantic and land targets on the Eurasian landmass.

Following the disastrous collectivization efforts of the late 1920s, one of USSR's greatest agricultural problems during the 1930s was that many peasants were thoroughly unhappy with the collectivization.

Under Soviet rule, an oil pipeline was built to Ventspils, and became USSR's leading port in crude oil export.

During the time of the USSR's industrialization ( beginning with Joseph Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, 1928 – 1932 ) the need for capital to finance economic development was great.

Sberbank was structured as an umbrella institution for the fifteen savings banks of the USSR's republics.

The organization was founded in 1952 to develop aviation pressure suits and in-flight refuelling systems for the USSR's space research programme.

As Gorbachev had weakened the system of internal political repression, the ability of the USSR's central Moscow government to impose its will on the USSR's constituent republics had been largely undermined.

It resulted in the abolition of the Soviet Federal Government (" the Union center ") and independence of the USSR's republics on 25 December 1991.

Inspired by the USSR's Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this group also favored a new political orientation, focused less on Marxism and armed struggle, and more on the democratisation of Palestinian society.

As Gorbachev had weakened the system of internal political repression, the ability of the USSR's central Moscow government to impose its will on the USSR's constituent republics had been largely undermined.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Honduras recognized Russia as the USSR's successor on January 3, 1992.

After negotiations during November 1940 on where to extend the USSR's sphere of influence, Hitler broke off talks and continued planning for the eventual attempts to invade the Soviet Union.

France and the United Kingdom, treating the Soviet attack on Finland as tantamount to entering the war on the side of the Germans, responded to the Soviet invasion by supporting the USSR's expulsion from the League of Nations.

** The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.

This missile's design is based on the USSR's submarine launched R-27 and extended the fuel tank to the 20 ton loading limit of the MAZ-543 transporter erector launcher, and the estimated range is 3000 – 4000 km, which can strike Guam.

USSR's Aeroflot became the first airline in the world to operate sustained regular jet services on September 15, 1956 with the Tupolev Tu-104.

Although a criticism of the foreign policy of the United States, the song's final stanza also delivers a harsh criticism on communism by making reference to the mass murder of pacifist Buddhist monks in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution and the USSR's Invasion of Afghanistan.

In 1940, he became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences, and Lysenko's anti-Mendelian doctrines were further secured in Soviet science and education by the exercise of political influence and power.

Other revolutions in China, Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea were subsequently shaped by the USSR's model of a bureaucratic dictatorship, not by the democratic organization of the working class.

With the launch of Sputnik 1 & 2 the previous concern, of the right of satellite overflight, had become moot: those satellites were launched by an early version of the Soviet R-7 rocket, the basis of the USSR's early ICBMs, and definitely military, as well as roughly 40 times larger than the Vanguard launcher.

The LPRP is a Marxist-Leninist party patterned after the Vietnamese Communist Party and strongly influenced by the Soviet Union and the USSR's Communist Party.

Its development took over ten years despite it being 20 years after the American F-1 due to the relative backwardness of the USSR's industrial base as foreseen by Glushko and thus probably vindicated his decision not to support the development of such an engine for the N-1 rocket.

Strauss was selected by President George H. W. Bush to be the U. S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1991 and after the USSR's collapse, he served as the U. S. ambassador to Russia from 1991 until 1993.

While in MI5, Wright came to be aware that the USSR's espionage agencies had been infiltrating the UK's government, military and education establishments from the 1930s by using, among other things, close-knit left-wing homosexual circles at Oxbridge, especially the Cambridge Apostles.

* July 18, 1981 The USSR's TASS news agency reports the emergency landing near the USSR / Turkish border of an Argentine-registered transport aircraft leased and flown by Israelis, carrying a full load of US weaponry and military spare parts.

It traces its origin to the USSR's Ninth Chief Directorate of the KGB and later Presidential Security Service ( SBP ) led by KGB general Alexander Korzhakov.

Judging by efficiency of the Yak-40 and Aa-28 aircraft utilization, the Tajik Civil Aviation Authority won first place in the USSR's Air Fleet.

The Glengarry was replaced for officers of most non-Scottish units by a cap called the " Torin " ( similar in shape to the USSR's pilotka ), which was worn from circa 1884 until 1896, when it too was replaced by a style for all ranks known as the " Austrian Cap ", which had a fold down arrangement, giving the appearance when unfolded of a balaclava, thus warming the ears and back of the neck.

The succession was supported by the USSR's former members and was not objected to by the UN membership ; Russia accounted for about half the Soviet Union's economy and most of its land mass ; in addition, the history of the Soviet Union began in Russia.

" ( lyrics by Yuri Polukhin ) was a work of optimism designed to celebrate the USSR's technological breakthroughs.