The 3 / 180 ° and 5 / 180 ° connectors were originally standardized and widely used in Germany, Czech republic, and, later, in some other western European countries ( for example the Netherlands, UK, Sweden ) USSR, Comecon countries for interconnecting analog audio equipment, for example a stereo tape recorder to a stereo amplifier or preamplifier, using the five pins for the four signal connections plus ground.

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

Several of the other countries it occupied that were not directly annexed into the USSR became Soviet satellite states.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

In 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1, 500 DI agents, including Che Guevara, were invited to the USSR for intensive training in intelligence operations.

While ballistic missiles were the preferred weapons for land targets, heavy nuclear and conventional tipped cruise missiles were seen by the USSR as a primary weapon to destroy US naval carrier battle groups.

The truck-launched versions, and also the Pershing II and SS-20 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles, were later destroyed under the bilateral INF ( Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces ) treaty with the USSR.

Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

Elections to the new Congress of People's Deputies were held throughout the USSR in March and April 1989.

The initial, formal killings of the Final Solution were undertaken by the SS Einsatzgruppen ( Task Forces ) death squads who followed the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

Infantry weapons of Soviet manufacture imported from the USSR, Czechoslovakia and the PRC were to be issued as they became available.

In March 1940, there were 53 separate camps and 423 labor colonies in the USSR.

A further 6-7 million were deported and exiled to remote areas of the USSR, and 4-5 million passed through " labour colonies ".

Approximately 300, 000 Polish prisoners of war were captured by the USSR during and after the ' Polish Defensive War '.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

All other lands east of the Oder – Neisse line were put under Polish administration, with the exception of historic northern East Prussia, which went to the USSR.

In the 1950s and 1960s, development began on Anti-Ballistic Missile systems by both the U. S. and USSR ; these systems were restricted by the 1972 ABM treaty.

The first successful ABM test were conducted by the USSR in 1961, that later deployed a fully operating system defending Moscow in the 1970s ( see Moscow ABM system ).

The 1972 SALT treaty froze the number of ICBM launchers of both the USA and the USSR at existing levels, and allowed new submarine-based SLBM launchers only if an equal number of land-based ICBM launchers were dismantled.

Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

SALT II was never ratified by the United States Senate, but its terms were nevertheless honored by both sides until 1986, when the Reagan administration " withdrew " after accusing the USSR of violating the pact.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

The USSR later copied the design and used it extensively in its tanks ( including the T-34 and T-70 ); Germany also made and used copies.

Its PCB was copied all over the USSR, which made it the most widespread Soviet ZX Spectrum clone.

The design was later copied and used extensively in tanks of the USSR ( including the T-34 and T-70 ) and Germany.

In USSR the Gundlach periscope was known as MK-4 ( harking to the British designation, as Russian sources openly confirm that it was copied from samples acquired with British-supplied tanks ) and implemented in all tanks ( including the T-34 and T-70 ).

Until the conflict with Inform biro in 1947 Yugoslav Government blindly copied USSR ’ s social system, which had negative effects on the education -“ the reduction of criteria and leveling in work demands with higher elementary school children and secondary school children .” The church was severely criticized by the Communist regime so that religious education was put out of the curriculum for the first time since the school ’ s foundation.

Afterwards, as Deputy Chairman of the People's Commissariat, which oversaw culture and education, as this area and others were incorporated more fully into the USSR, he directed efforts to convert the written alphabets of conquered peoples to the Cyrillic alphabet.

" CCCP " is the Cyrillic lettering for SSSR ( i. e. USSR ), and " CSI " mimics the Italian acronym for the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In 1928 Kurdish language in all of the USSR, including Armenian SSR, was switched to a Latin alphabet containing some Cyrillic characters:.

Whereas the earlier band's name referenced the Cyrillic lettering for SSSR ( i. e. USSR ), " CSI " follows the conventions of the Italian acronym for the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States.

In the Soviet Union a version of the 6V6GT was produced since the late 1940s which appears to be a close copy of the 1940s Sylvania-issue 6V6GT-initially under its American designation ( in both Latin and Cyrillic lettering ), but later, after USSR had adopted its own system of designations, the tube was being marked 6P6S ( 6П6С in Cyrillic.

The reverse had the Cyrillic inscription for " USSR " () within a ring with a raised rim.

Some computers created in the former USSR had native support for the Cyrillic alphabet.

Inscriptions in Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tajik, Kazakh, Kyrgyz languages were updated due to the transfer from Latin to Cyrillic script of the respective languages within the USSR.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

Among the subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers in the USSR ( Channel 9 at 9:30 ).

The formation of this group, according to Camus, was to " denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA " regarding their idolatry of technology.

* 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

New sectors, such as precious stone processing and jewelry making and communication technologyArmentel ( left fromt the USSR era ), which is not even owned by the government or Armenian investors.

Since the implosion of the USSR in December 1991, Armenia has switched to small-scale agriculture away from the large agroindustrial complexes of the Soviet era.

In 1953, K. Omelchenko, the minister for the protection of military and state secrets in USSR banned the press from publishing any more information on the Ainu living in the USSR.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

* 1941 – Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.

In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.

In his works he declared that " the principle ' what is not prohibited is allowed ' should be understood literally ", defying the unwritten ideological rules imposed by the Communist ruling elite on the society in spite of the seemingly democratic USSR Constitution.

At about the same time, the USSR reached strategic parity with the US in terms of ICBM forces.

As relations between the US and USSR warmed in the later years of the 1960s, the US first proposed an ABM treaty in 1967.

By 1987, however, the USSR withdrew its opposition, concluding the SDI posed no threat.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

Until 1992 the Belorussian Military District of the USSR comprised the 5th Guards Tank Army, the 7th Tank Army, the 28th Army, the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division, the 51st Guards aviation division, the 72nd Guards United Training Center and logistical units and formations.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

At the same time, the focus of Bulgarian international trade shifted from Central Europe to Eastern Europe and USSR.