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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the reunification of Germany, the Warsaw Pact had little reason to exist. These countries left the pact and reformed their governments ...
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US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
Such a solution would conjure a cruel historical irony. Putin, who watched in despair from his post as a KGB officer in ...
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Hitler's foreign policy and the build up to war
After threats of war the Czechs were forced to accept Germany ... the Soviet Union were invited to take part Events In August, Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with the leader ...
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Putin signs law on fines for putting Soviet Union, Nazi Germany on same footing
Last June, Putin signed into the law a ban on any public attempt to equate the goals and actions of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as to deny the decisive role of ...
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Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation
was a typical account of many of the 170,000 Russian speakers who immigrated to Germany following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The newcomers faced a rift with the 30,000 ...
Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for Europe
We are at that moment in Animal Farm when the gentle carthorse Clover looks through the window to see the pigs playing cards ...