After the Soviets conquered these republics, the territory under Armenian control, by and large, went to Turkey ; whereas the territory under Georgian control mostly reverted to the Soviet Union after Georgia's fall in March 1921.

The idea was that if a clearly " civilian " and " scientific " satellite went up first, the Soviets might not object, and thus the precedent would be established that space was above national boundaries.

Ireland subsequently drew 1 – 1 with the Soviets but went out of the competition when they lost 1 – 0 to the Dutch.

He went by the alias " Ramon " or " Ramon Garcia " when corresponding with the Soviets.

Christopher John Boyce of TRW, and his accomplice Andrew Daulton Lee, sold out to the Soviets and went to prison in the 1970s.

Terrified that the Soviets had discovered his duplicity, he went back to his apartment and hid his family in the apartment across the hall for the night.

" In 2008, Wilson said he had " got involved in Afghanistan because I went there and I saw what the Soviets were doing.

After Germany had taken control of Estonia, he joined the German Wehrmacht and went on to fight against the Soviets in Northwestern Russia, subsequently becoming the captain of the 184th Security Battalion, then Major of the Estonian 658th Eastern Battalion.

The Soviets earned the respect of fans and players alike ; the Canadians went from scoffing at their antiquated equipment and strange training methods and practices, to admiration for their talent and conditioning.

On 13 May, the Northern Corps went on the offensive at Narva, catching the Soviets by surprise and destroying their 6th Division.

The Soviets went as far as to say they would be willing to use " all types of modern weapons of destruction " on London and Paris-an overt threat of nuclear attack.

He even went as far as to begin talks with the Soviets.

Once the Soviets lost control, the country went through a " rule set reset ," organizing itself to more closely align with the largely democratic and capitalist societies it had once opposed.

This version is a living weapon created by the Soviets, that went out of control.

Johnson went on to play professional hockey in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, St. Louis Blues, and New Jersey Devils-in his final season with New Jersey, he was a teammate of Slava Fetisov, who had played for the Soviets in Lake Placid.

In May 1945, when Soviets moved into Brunnlitz, the Schindlers left the Jews in the factory and went into hiding, in fear of being caught because of Oskar's ties with the Nazi party.

However, there are indications that some elements of the Hungarian First Army went over to the Soviets at about this time.

One of them went on counterattack at the Soviets besieging Tornimägi, the second of them securing Narva – Tallinn Highway in the west and the third unit counterattacking between the Grenaderimägi and the railway a few kilometres to the south.

During the same general time, the Soviets airlifted 12, 500 – 15, 000 tons of supplies, more than half of which went to Syria ; they also supplied another 63, 000 tons mainly to Syria by means of a sealift.

The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along the Kremlin's western wall past the Russian State Library and into the future site of the Palace of Soviets on the bank of the Moskva River and terminated near the infamous Gorky Park.

The Soviets began to attack Canadian involvement directly, “ they objected to the use of Canadian peacekeepers because Canada was one of Belgium ’ s NATO allies .” The Soviets even went so far as to demand “ the withdrawal of armed groups from Canada .” According to Scarnecchia, the Soviets “ accused the RCAF of supplying weapons and armoured steel to Tshombe ’ s forces in secessionist Katanga, they believed that this RCAF support was in line with Western Interests .” Though these allegations were never proven in response the secretary-general of the UN transferred the RCAF contingent from performing airlift duties in support of the UN mission to a Pisa-Leopoldville airlift of food and aid.

The Armenian leaders went to Persia to avoid arrest an possible execution by the Soviets.

Kennedy, however, was circumspect in his response to the news, refusing to make a commitment on America's response to the Soviets.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

Early on, the Soviets built the KV-2, a variant of the KV-1 heavy tank with a short-barreled 152 mm howitzer mounted in an oversized turret.

On the one hand, Reagan stated that SDI was " consistent with ... the ABM Treaty ", but on the other hand, he viewed it as a defensive system that would help reduce the possibility that mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) would become reality ; he even suggested that the Soviets would be given access to the SDI technology.

Strategies based on maneuver have the inherent danger of the attacking force overextending its supply lines, and can be defeated by a determined foe who is willing and able to sacrifice territory for time in which to regroup and rearm, as the Soviets did on the Eastern Front ( as opposed to, for example, the Dutch who had no territory to sacrifice ).

She found him sitting on a bench near the Palace of Soviets Metro Station.

The Soviets maintained their tight secrecy, writing their plans longhand, which were approved by Rodion Malinovsky on July 4 and Khrushchev on July 7.

German defenses continued to deteriorate on both the eastern front with the Soviets and the western front with the Allies.

The Soviets, along with the Polish, captured Berlin in a very large-scale bloody battle, and the Germans finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.

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.

By late 1944, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain were closing in on Germany in the West, while the Soviets were closing from the East.

The mid-August British-French talks with the Soviets on forming an anti-Nazi defensive military alliance had failed, in part over the Polish government's refusal to allow the Red Army to operate on Polish territory.

Faced with mounting international pressure and great number of casualties on both sides, the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by " Hergé ", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930.

The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although 2. 5 million Soviet casualties were suffered in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front.

By the beginning of 1945, with the Soviets on the Oder and the Western Allies preparing to cross the Rhine, Goebbels could no longer disguise the fact that defeat was inevitable.

After midnight on 29 April, with the Soviets advancing ever closer to the bunker complex, Hitler dictated his last will and testament.

Ribbentrop argued that the Soviets and Germans shared a common enemy in the form of the British Empire, and as such, it was in the best interests of the Kremlin to enter the war on the Axis side.

" Prompted by Elliott's accusations, Philby confirmed the charges of espionage and describe his intelligence activities on behalf of the Soviets.

As Fuchs later testified, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 he concluded that the Soviets had a right to know what the United Kingdom ( and later the United States ) were working on in secret.