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The Soviets understand, moreover, that the first step in turning a country toward Communism is to turn it against the West.
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Soviets and understand
Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.
Only one language do they understand ... I do not think we should play compromise any longer ... I am tired of babying the Soviets.
Only one language do they understand —“ how many divisions do you have ?” I do not think we should play compromise any longer … I am tired of babying the Soviets ".
Soviets and moreover
The Soviet military role in Vietnam increased during the 1980s as the Soviets provided arms to Vietnam ; moreover, Soviet ships enjoyed access to the harbors at Da Nang and Cam Ranh Bay, and Soviet reconnaissance aircraft operated out of Vietnamese airfields.
Soviets and first
The Soviets were threatened because the Americans might have been able to make a nuclear first strike possible.
He first told the Americans that they would be welcome in talks between the Soviet Union and China, then secretly told the Soviets that the Americans were unimportant and that their opinions would not be considered.
The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before the first manned Gemini was launched.
As they had with the first satellite and first man in space, the Soviets again stunned the world on March 18, 1965 with the first EVA ( commonly referred to as a " space walk ") performed by Alexey Leonov from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, for 12 minutes outside the spacecraft.
Also, for the first time, American astronauts used an airlock to enter and exit the spacecraft like the Soviets.
They had been unable to find detailed maps of the area, which contained the Soviets ' first military plutonium production facility at Mayak, making knowledge of the area vital in the event of war with the Soviet Union.
It was here, in 1929, that he began serialising the first of the Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 40 – 50 miles from Moscow, the Wehrmacht's first significant defeat of the war.
At the First Congress of Soviets in June, he was elected a member of the first All-Russian Central Executive Committee (" VTsIK ") from the Mezhraiontsy faction.
These were first established in July 1945, when the Soviets forcibly ejected newly arrived Polish inhabitants from the parts of the city they wanted for their own use.
The USA had lost the first round of the space race to the Soviets ; however, the FAI rules in 1961 required that a pilot must land safely with the spacecraft for the flight to be considered an official spaceflight.
As a result, the first democratically elected Congress of Soviets passed the declaration confirming the existence of the secret protocols, condemning and denouncing them.
In shipbuilding the Soviets first assisted the Chinese, then the Chinese copied Soviet designs without assistance, and finally the Chinese produced vessels of their own design.
Because of these factors, and high commitment and morale in the Finnish forces, Finland was able to resist the Soviet invasion for far longer than the Soviets expected ; Finnish forces inflicted stunning losses on the Red Army for the first three to four months while suffering very few losses of their own.
From this humble beginning, the Soviets would go on to create the first operational-level armored formations in history, the 11th and 45th Mechanized Corps, in 1932.
Since the Soviets claimed to have first detected the new element they suggested the name kurchatovium, Ku, in honor of Igor Kurchatov ( 1903 – 1960 ), former head of Soviet nuclear research.
In May 1921, the Afghans and the Soviets signed a Treaty of Friendship, Afghanistan's first international agreement since gaining full independence in 1919.
" On Friday, October 4, 1957, the Soviets had orbited the world's first artificial satellite.
Sheng adopted the Soviets ' ethnographic classification rather than the Kuomintang one, and became the first to officially promulgate the use of the term " Uyghur " to describe the Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang.
The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, had been put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957, and this could be considered the beginning of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
After losing the first game of a best-of-three final series against the Soviets, Gretzky propelled Canada with a five-assist performance in the second game, including the game-winning pass to Lemieux in overtime, to extend the tournament.
On November 22, 1955, the Soviets set off RDS-37, which was their first thermonuclear bomb.
Soviets and step
Babrak Karmal, Afghanistan's new president, charged the Soviets with causing an increase in the unrest, and demanded that the 40th Army step in and quell the rebellion, as his own army had proved untrustworthy.
It represented a great step forward taking into account that it was the only jet fighter not made by the Soviets, the only one ever manufactured and operated by a Warsaw Pact country.
While their attempts to create a bridge between Poland's history and Soviet Marxism ideology were mildly successful, especially in comparison to similar efforts in most other countries of the Eastern Bloc, they have been to much extent stifled by the regime's unwillingness to step too far and risk the wrath of Soviets for going too far from the Soviet party line.
Soviets and turning
The Soviets increasingly were able to challenge the Luftwaffe, and while the Luftwaffe maintained a qualitative edge over the Red Air Force for much of the war, the increasing numbers and efficacy of the Soviet Air Force were critical to the Red Army's efforts at turning back and eventually annihilating the Wehrmacht.
Instead of retaliating against Nasser for turning to the Soviets, Dulles sought to improve relations with him.
This decision generated a further rift between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, a neighboring communist state which felt the Soviets were turning their back on the fundamental Marxist-Leninist struggle for the worldwide triumph of communism.
Soviets and country
On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.
In 1927, the Soviet Union's Chess Federation established the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union, for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country.
Latvia's independent status was interrupted at the outset of World War II when in 1940 the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then retaken by the Soviets in 1944 after Germany surrendered.
In addition, the most important condition was that every country choosing to take advantage of the plan would need to have its economic situation independently assessed-a level of scrutiny to which the Soviets could not agree.
Due to problems with local political parties in his country, President Daud Khan decided to distance himself from the Soviets in 1976.
The 1936 Constitution also split the Soviets into two legislatures, the Soviet of the Union – representing electoral districts, and the Soviet of the Nationalities – that represented the ethnic makeup of the country as a whole.
Its alliance with the United States was especially close after the Soviets invaded the neighboring country of Afghanistan.
The reforms, especially the decentralization of administrative authority, were not received well by the Soviets, who, after failed negotiations, sent thousands of Warsaw Pact troops and tanks to occupy the country.
However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.
* December 22 – The 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR adopts the GOELRO plan, the major plan of the economical development of the country.
The regiment is notable for being one of only two air combat units from an Allied western European country to participate on the Eastern Front during World War II, the other being the British No. 151 Wing RAF, and the only one to fight together with the Soviets until the end of the war in Europe.
Through a series of coalition governments including Communist parties, and then a forced liquidation of coalition members unliked by the Soviets, Stalinist systems were established in each country.
The Soviets spent the extra time systematically dismantling the extensive Manchurian industrial base ( worth up to 2 billion dollars ) and shipping it back to their war-ravaged country.
Thus, the Soviets intervened to preserve their influence in the country.
After Gorbachev's May agreement on German NATO membership, the Soviets further agreed that Germany would be treated as an ordinary NATO country, with the exception that former East German territory would not have foreign NATO troops or nuclear weapons.
The 1968 Prague Spring worried China deeply, as the Soviets now claimed the right to intervene in any country that was deviating from the correct path of socialism.
Furthermore, the Soviets had agreed to join the United Nations, given the secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, thus ensuring that each country could block unwanted decisions.
At the close of World War II, Finland, which had made a separate peace with the Allies, was required to evict the German forces, which had been fighting against the Soviets alongside the Finnish troops in the Northern part of the country.
Adolf Hitler declared Germany to be im Bunde ( in league ) with the Finns, but Finland's government declared their intention to remain first a non-belligerent country, then co-belligerent after the Soviets started bombing Finnish cities all over the country, not the least due to a remaining neutralist public opinion.
Florence's nationality was changed from Hungarian to Czech, which changed the year that the Soviets overran her country from 1956 to 1968 ( with an accompanying change in the lyrics of " Nobody's Side " from " Budapest is falling " to " Prague and Mr. Dubček ").
After nine years of fighting, the Soviets were unable to suppress Afghan rebels and pulled out of the country.
" He calls for " a republic of Soviets of Workers ', Agricultural Labourers ' and Peasants ' Deputies throughout the country, from top to bottom.
* Calls for " The weight of emphasis in the agrarian programme to be shifted to the Soviets of Agricultural Labourers ' Deputies ," confiscation of all landed estates ," and " nationalization of all lands in the country, the land to be disposed of by the local Soviets of Agricultural Labourers ' and Peasants ' Deputies.
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