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.

Moreover, spending a total time of five years or more after January 1, 1980 ( to present ), in the above-mentioned countries and / or any country in Europe ( except the former USSR ), also precludes donation.

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.

This definition was also often used outside the USSR during this period.

In 1958, the USSR also started the development of the " Altai " national civil mobile phone service for cars, based on the Soviet MRT-1327 standard.

Glasnost can also refer to the specific period in the history of the USSR during the 1980s when there was less censorship and greater freedom of information.

It has also been argued that the USSR practiced colonialism as did other imperial powers and was carrying on the old Russian tradition of expansion and control.

Cousteau also belonged to the information service of the French Navy, and was sent on missions to Shanghai and Japan ( 1935 – 1938 ) and in the USSR ( 1939 ).

To train its pilots on the latest combat aircraft, Germany solicited the help of its future enemy, the USSR, which was also isolated in Europe.

It starred his wife, Lyubov Orlova ( an operatic singer who had also appeared in The Jolly Fellows ) as an American circus performer who has to immigrate to the USSR from the U. S. because she has a mixed race child, whom she had with a black man.

Thus, in a sense, the Spanish Civil War became also the scene of a proxy war between Germany and the USSR.

Around this time, interest in nuclear war environmental effects also arose in the USSR.

The meteorological reckoning of seasons is used in Austria, Denmark and the former USSR ; it is also used by many in the United Kingdom, where summer is thought of as extending from mid-May to mid-August.

Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, and the head of the Warsaw Treaty Combined Staff also was a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

On August 29, 1949 the USSR tested its first nuclear weapon at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan ( see also Soviet atomic bomb project ).

Although he continued the Ostpolitik of his social-democratic predecessor, Kohl also supported Reagan's more aggressive policies in order to weaken the USSR.

Supporters also argued that SDI could trigger a new arms race, forcing the USSR to spend an increasing proportion of GDP on defense — something which has been claimed to have been an indirect cause of the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.

Nasser also decided to cooperate with the USSR in the construction of the Aswan High Dam since the US withdrew its offer following the nationalization of the Suez Canal.

The USSR considered potential participation by the PCI in a cabinet a form of emancipation from Moscow and rapprochement to the Americans, therefore also opposing it.

In October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical market-oriented reform along the lines of Poland's " big bang ", also known as " shock therapy ".

Three separate categories for the kulaks were designated: The first consisted of kulaks to be sent to the Gulags, the second was for kulaks to be relocated to distant parts of the USSR ( such as the north Urals and Kazahkstan ), and the third to other parts of their province.

But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US / USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.

Within a few months, the USSR had sent jet airplanes, tanks, heavy and light artillery for a heavily discounted price tag of $ 25 million.

On April 14, 1979, the Afghan government requested that the USSR send 15 to 20 helicopters with their crews to Afghanistan, and on June 16, the Soviet government responded and sent a detachment of tanks, BMPs, and crews to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the Bagram and Shindand airfields.

They had been deported from Kresy to the eastern regions of Russia, or sent to Gulags when the USSR occupied this region of Poland in 1939.

Conscripted into the army in 1919, he was sent to fight in a doomed war against the USSR waged at the time by Japan and its allies, including the US and Britain.

Named " 271120 ", it was released 13: 44 Moscow Time in Pavlovsk, USSR from the Main Geophysical Observatory, reached a height of 7. 8 kilometers measuring temperature there (- 40. 7 ° C ) and sent the first aerological message to the Leningrad Weather Bureau and Moscow Central Forecast Institute.

He surrenders the base to the USSR, and after endless interrogations is sent to a Karelian gulag, where he dies of starvation, over-exhaustion, and malnourishment.

" In February 1991, he sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev demanding the withdrawal of Soviet army units and an additional contingent of interior troops of the USSR from the territory of former Authonomous District of South Ossetia.

In 1942, the United States, an ally of Britain and the USSR during the war, sent a military force to Iran to help maintain and operate sections of the railroad.

The combined V1 hull / V2 turret vehicle was completed in Germany and sent back to the USSR for further testing.

25, 000 German workers had to disassemble the plant before it was sent to the USSR.

Vlasov sent several secret delegations to begin negotiating a surrender to the Allies, hoping they would sympathise with the goals of ROA and potentially use it in an inevitable future war with the USSR.

The forces of the USSR had arrived in July, and Herzstark feared being sent to Russia, so, later that same month, he fled to Austria.

56 were eventually executed ( including pregnant women ), 260 were jailed for three to ten years and 126 were sent to the USSR.

Joseph Stalin had become intrigued by reports of the Silbervogel design and sent his son, Vasily, and scientist Grigori Tokaty to kidnap Sänger and Bredt and bring them to the USSR.

They sent hundreds of thousands to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR.

Many of the " settlers " who came in the early 20th century were prisoners of the Gulag who were sent by the hundreds of thousands to perform forced labor in the Arctic regions of the USSR.

In June 1940, he was sent to Estonia to supervise the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and its annexation by the USSR.

Some 150, 000 of them were sent to the Gulag ( the USSR ‘ s concentration camps ), situated mostly in Siberia.

In the statement, he mentioned that 20 cases were referred over to the World Psychiatric Association for further investigation by their committee to review alleged abuses of psychiatry for political purposes and a number of these cases were sent to the All Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists of the USSR for clarification and response, but when months and months went by and the World Psychiatric Association had received no response from Soviet colleagues, the American Psychiatric Association and a number of other psychiatric associations across the world carried a resolution which stated:

While the PHS stalled, the USSR sent millions of doses of the oral vaccine to places with polio epidemics, such as Japan, and reaped the humanitarian benefit.

The rising threat of attacks by frogmen in naval bases caused various anti-frogman techniques to be developed, and in the USSR one of these was guard frogmen sent to stop the attackers.