Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

She also wrote that the Soviets were " violating girls and women of all ages ", and about her, her daughter's and grandson's suffering as displaced persons in postwar Berlin, where the Germans abandoned them for a possible hostage exchange in April 1945, as the Russians were advancing.

He also associates gambling and the idea of " getting rich quick ", suggesting that Russians may have a particular affinity for gambling.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

( The term Kara-Kyrgyz was used until the mid-1920s by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who were also referred to as Kyrgyz.

He was also working for both Soviet and British intelligence, posting letters in a crude code to a fictitious girlfriend — Mlle Dupont in Paris — for the Russians.

* Russians ( russkiye ), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries ( where they are also known as Ruthenians or by other names )

During the Cold War era, ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government ; they also controlled local administration.

As the titular nationalities of the other fourteen union republics began to call for greater republic rights in the late 1980s, however, ethnic Russians also began to demand the creation or strengthening of various specifically Russian institutions in the RSFSR.

They also stressed that the TWG had given too much credence to the chemistry experiments performed by the Russians and accused the TWG of not having appropriately qualified personnel on the committee.

Bond, in his various incarnations, flippantly beat up on the Russians, but there were also more serious, probing works like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold which also emerged from the Cold War.

As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad ( expatriates ), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of ethnic minorities from newly created nation states in the first part of the 20th century, but they also counted the ( mostly aristocratic ) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees.

:"... 27 January 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where a combined total of up to 1. 5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians and prisoners of various other nationalities, and homosexuals, were murdered, is not only a major occasion for European citizens to remember and condemn the enormous horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, but also for addressing the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism, and especially anti-Semitic incidents, in Europe, and for learning anew the wider lessons about the dangers of victimising people on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, social classification, politics or sexual orientation ...."

The historical records show that the Treblinka camp guards were of varied ethnic groups and nationalities, comprising not only Germans ( Volksdeutsche ) but also a number of Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Moldovans, Latvians, and representatives of Soviet Central Asia ( including a number of collaborating Soviet prisoners of war ).

The Bulgarians also fought alongside the advancing Russians.

Some researchers estimate that altogether more than 3 million people, predominantly Ukrainians but also Russians, Belarusians and Poles, were captured and enslaved during the time of the Crimean Khanate.

Heinlein's novel also repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the then prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States.

Heinlein also assumes that the Russians are running China, " The Russian bureaucrats had even cleaned up China to the point where bubonic plague and typhus were endemic rather than epidemic .".

The buyer was computer gaming entrepreneur and astronaut's son Richard Garriott ( also known by his gaming character Lord British ), who stated in a 2001 interview: " I purchased Lunakod 21 from the Russians.

Bond discovers that Dr. No is also working with the Russians and has built an elaborate underground facility from which he can sabotage American missile tests at nearby Cape Canaveral.

This would serve to relieve pressure on the French, as well as the Russians who had also suffered great losses.

The fur trade was also practiced by the Russians on the northwest coast of North America.

There were also Koreans, Japanese, Mongols, White Russians and less numerous minorities.

Churchill also had to ensure the British dominated forces in Italy were contributing to the war at a time when the Russians were suffering tremendous losses on the Eastern Front.

The position is considered to have been dominated at least the 1700s since the days of the Greater Wrath, when the Russians " occupied by Finland and raped it.

The Russians were primarily concerned with the construction of the northern section of the line, extending from Astara to Tehran, while the British were more concerned with the southern section, since they already dominated the southern region and the Persian Gulf.

The Black Sea was the domain of the Russians and the Ottoman Empire but the Russian fleet dominated the sea.

The east side of West Hollywood is dominated by Russian immigrants, and the park is a popular gathering place for Russians.

Foyn's eventual successful development of the cannon, in combination with fast and sleek steam-powered catcher vessels, ushered in a modern whaling industry that was to become dominated first by the Norwegians, then the British and finally the Russians and Japanese.

Chiang called on the three and their suboordinates to wage war against the Soviet Russians, Tibetans, Communists, and the Japanese.

The Russians, whose side lost, failed to keep up and despite newer models coming into service, I-16s were outfought by the improved Bf 109s in World War II, while remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942.

Various foreign scientific discoveries and inventions ( such as the Wright Brothers ' airplane ) were attributed to Russians in post-war Soviet propaganda.

As in many former Soviet republics, after Kyrgyzstan regained independence in August 1991 many individuals, organizations, and political parties sought to reestablish ( and, to a certain extent, to create from scratch ) a Kyrgyz national cultural identity ; often one that included a backlash against Russians.

He became the third Soviet leader to die in less than three years, and, upon being informed in the middle of the night of his death, US President Ronald Reagan, who was seven months older than Chernenko and just over three years older than his predecessor Andropov, is reported to have remarked " how am I supposed to get any place with the Russians if they keep dying on me?

The new Foreign Minister assured the Soviet Ambassador that Japan would honor the neutrality agreement, even though Germany was urging its Japanese ally to attack the Russians from the east.

Large numbers of Russians, as well as some Ukrainians and Belarussians remained in Latvia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

* Estonia: Defined as a nation state in its 1992 constitution, up until the period of Soviet colonialisation, Estonia was historically a very homogenous state with 88. 2 % of residents being Estonians, 8. 2 % Russians, 1, 5 % Germans and 0. 4 % Jews according to the 1934 census.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, almost 20, 000 White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai.

Another explanation for the Eastern European adoption of SECAM, led by the Soviet Union, is that the Russians had extremely long distribution lines between broadcasting stations and transmitters.

The Soviet Union subsequently repopulated Sambia with Russians and Belarusians.

The Soviet press later reported that minutes before boarding the spacecraft Gagarin made a speech: " Dear friends, you who are close to me, and you whom I do not know, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and all continents: in a few minutes a powerful space vehicle will carry me into the distant realm of space.

Only in the 1960s did Vilnius begin to grow again, following an influx of Lithuanian and Polish population from neighbouring regions and well as from other areas of the Soviet Union ( particularly Russians and Belarusians ).

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

After the WWII, the population of East Prussia was replaced by the Soviet one, mainly by Russians.

Under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, ethnic Russians were sent to colonize captured territory such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, while local languages, religions and customs were banned or suppressed.

Some researchers assert that most Russians today have come to regret the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union various new religious movements have sprung up and gathered a following among ethnic Russians.