Akira's only surviving son, Keizo ( b. 1927 ) was taken prisoner and joined the Soviet Army after his capture.

Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

On 8 September 1944, the Bulgarian army joined the Soviet Union in its war against Germany.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

On the Eastern Front the USSR was lacking pilots and several French pilots joined the Soviet Union and fought the Luftwaffe in the Normandie-Niemen squadron.

The Soviet Union joined the Allies and despite heavy human and territorial losses in the initial period of war, it stopped the Axis advance in the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.

In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

Trotsky joined the Soviet under the name " Yanovsky " ( after the village he was born in, Yanovka ) and was elected vice-Chairman.

In 1940 it was annexed by the Soviet Union, joined to the Moldavian ASSR, and became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic until the dissolution of the USSR.

Another clause of the treaty was that Germany would not interfere with the Soviet Union's actions towards Bessarabia, then part of Romania ; as the result, Bessarabia was joined to the Moldovan ASSR, and become the Moldovan SSR under control of Moscow.

The Soviet Union was brought into World War II and joined the Western Allies in a common front against the Axis Powers.

Under US President Jimmy Carter, the West joined the Soviet Union and others in enacting sanctions against weapons trade and weapons-grade material to South Africa.

The Soviet Union and the United States under US President George H. W. Bush joined in pushing for the dismantlement of apartheid and oversaw the dismantlement of South African colonial rule over Namibia.

While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and soon became very active within it.

While at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and soon became very active within the party.

He was joined by his young wife Anna Larina, which therefore opened the possibility of exile, but he decided against it saying that he could not live outside the Soviet Union.

* Former Soviet states that disarmed and joined the NPT as non-nuclear weapons states:

After graduating in 1966, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In the Second World War, in which the Soviet Union and the U. S. joined Britain as allied powers, Britain and its Empire fought a successful war against Germany, Italy and Japan.

Historically, Soviet Ukraine joined the United Nations in 1945 as one of the original members following a Western compromise with the Soviet Union, which had asked for seats for all 15 of its union republics.

Rejecting support either for the West or for the East, Vanuatu joined the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983, and only established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and the United States in June and September 1986, respectively.

Though the Allies ' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.

On 26 September 1935 at the age of 22, Barbie joined the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), the special security branch service of the SS

CMD's executive director, Lisa Graves ( a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U. S. Department of Justice ), has testified several times before Congress on national security, homeland security, and civil liberties issues, joined in legal briefs on such issues, and her analysis has been published by the Texas Law Review and in numerous other articles.

In 1922 Heydrich joined the Navy, taking advantage of the security, structure, and pension it offered.

After leaving office as mayor, Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners, a security consulting business ; acquired Giuliani Capital Advisors ( later sold ), an investment banking firm ; and joined the Bracewell & Giuliani law firm, which changed its name when he became a partner.

The band embarked on their first tour of the U. S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

He also worked as a construction worker, a doorman ( bouncer ), a security guard and a ditchdigger, and briefly joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1945.

With a deteriorating security situation, large numbers of Soviet airborne forces joined stationed ground troops and began to land in Kabul on December 25.

In 1982 McNamara joined several other former national security officials in urging that the United States pledge not to use nuclear weapons first in Europe in the event of hostilities ; subsequently he proposed the elimination of nuclear weapons as an element of NATO's defense posture.

Soon afterwards, Walton joined the military in the U. S. Army Intelligence Corps, supervising security at aircraft plants and prisoner of war camps.

In the early 1980s Liddy joined forces with former Niles, Illinois Police Officer and co-owner of The Protection Group, Ltd., Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr., to start up a private security and countersurveillance firm called, G. Gordon Liddy & Associates.

In 1997 Wayne Madsen, now an investigative journalist on international security issues and counterterrorism, joined EPIC as a senior fellow, leaving in 2005

Justice John M. Harlan and Justice Harry A. Blackmun joined the Chief Justice in arguing the faults in the proceedings, and the lack of attention towards national security and the rights of the Executive.

As a result of the uprisings U. S. General John Abizaid in April 2004 requested an additional 10, 000 troops be sent to Iraq after admitting that a number of Iraqi security personnel had abandoned their posts or joined the Iraqi insurgency.

U. S. Army Captain William Sumner of the 354th Civil Affairs Brigade was the military officer in charge of the zoo and joined the team improving security and stemming the tide of looters.

In 1862, he joined Kumamoto forces who were posted to security duty in Kyoto.

Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Sale was joined with the Altrincham Poor Law Union, an inter-parish unit established to provide social security.

With his youth apparently limiting his influence, Reed joined the U. S. Army Medical Corps, both for its professional opportunities and the modest financial security it could provide.

Rep. Bartlett ( center ) ( R-MD ) joined Sen. Ben Cardin ( podium ) ( D-MD ) and Rep. Jo Ann Davis ( left ) ( R-VA ) in calling for a study of homeland security needs of the National Capital region, including Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

A broad cross section of protesters joined in direct action outside of the station in a weeks-long lockout during which station management spent over half a million dollars on security measures.

Shortly after his election, Gibb joined the opposition frontbench of William Hague when he was appointed as the spokesman on trade and industry in 1997, before joining the social security select committee later in the year.

They were joined by a medium tank battalion and support units, which assisted the Marines in forming a security cordon around the city.

On the disbandment of the USC, many of its members joined the newly-established Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ), the part-time security force which replaced the B Specials.

" Dickinson refused to sign the Declaration and since a proposal had been brought forth and carried that stated, " for our mutual security and protection ," no man could remain in Congress without signing, Dickinson voluntarily left and joined the Pennsylvania militia.

California and Texas joined then exited the program, citing privacy and security concerns.