You own the place where Soviets can drink.

Your remarks against the bourgeoisie and for the Soviets

About 600,000 Soviets residing in Estonia had been in that situation.

The printshop will be placed at the disposal of the Soviets.

The way she flies that F86, the Soviets must have an equivalent type.

She is scared No, she is afraid of you Afraid of our Soviets

In 1958, after the Soviets put up Sputnik, it was That's the end of America.

Our long term rationale becomes, we're involved in a hair trigger stand off with the Soviets.

It was made by a Russian that's designed most of the suits of the past 18 years for the Soviets.

Katyn was also the occasion for the Soviets to break off relations with Poland s wartime government in exile in London.

The other explanation questions the very premise that the Cuban missile crisis was an outright US victory. The Americans had three options a shoot out (bomb the missile sites) a squeeze out (blockade Cuba to convince the Soviets to withdraw the missiles) and a buyout (give the Soviets something they want).

And after a couple of hours, they actually start picking up the signal, because the Soviets made Sputnik very easy to track.

The Pope s call for religious freedom around the world, including in the socialist countries, rubbed the atheistic Soviets and Orthodox Russians the wrong way.

One focuses on the importance of the two superpowers relative stakes in the crisis the US not only had a greater stake in neighboring Cuba than the Soviets did, but could also bring conventional forces to bear. The naval blockade and the possibility of a US invasion strengthened the credibility of American deterrence, placing the psychological burden on the Soviets.

Some 50,000 Soviets writers, journalists, officials, musicians, dancers, athletes, and academics visited the United States between 1958 and 1988. Aleksandr Yakovlev was strongly influenced by his studies at Columbia University in 1958.

Technically, Glushko, by government order, continued to design engines for Korolev, but the work wasn t good. So, despite Sputnik s initial triumph, a decade later the Soviets lost the race to the moon to the Americans.

And, indeed, within two years of taking power, Sadat expelled the Soviets from Egypt and began to build a friendship with the US that, despite challenges and periodic differences, has proven important and valuable ever since.

They would propose actually there were about six volumes written on this a crisis relocation plan that was dependent upon the United States having three to four days warning that the Soviets were going to attack us.

The idea was that we would force the Soviets to re target their nuclear weapons very expensive and potentially double their arsenal, to not only take out the original site, but take out sites where people were going.

The Soviet Union possessed a great deal of soft power in the years after World War II. But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Lenin once said that capitalists were so cynical that they would sell the Soviets the rope with which they would hang them. Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

Council of Ministers decision No. 368 of 10 December 1985 approving the Regulations on actions which must be taken by the executive committees of local soviets of people's deputies, managers of enterprises and other officials on discovering explosive objects

They were spirited to safety. They were reclassified as Yugoslav citizens and they managed to stay one step ahead of their pursuers for the duration of the War, surviving burnings and bombings and, at the end of the War, arrest by the Soviets.

No Maoist group could ever gain a toehold in Afghanistan s parched Pashtun south (these were, after all, people who, bare knuckled, smashed the Soviets). But the Taliban s rapid rise in the 1990 s was inextricably linked to the failure of irrigation systems.

The OUN broke with the Nazis after they denied Ukraine independence, and finally fought the Soviets and both the army of Communist Poland and the anticommunist Polish underground after the Germans were routed. In western Ukraine, they remain the incarnation of a heroic myth.

In addition, it would have been difficult to persuade other countries to join a coalition to contain China unless China resorted to bullying tactics, as the Soviets did after World War II. Only China, by its behavior, could organize the containment of China by others.

Following the conclusion of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Estonia had been consigned to the Soviet sphere of influence and had been occupied by the Soviets, who had incorporated it into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

CAPE CANAVERAL More than 50 years ago (1957), the Soviets launched the world s first orbiting satellite, beating the US into space. For Americans, the so called Sputnik moment was a wake up call that pushed the United States to increase investment in technology and science education.

He is married to the sister of Tariq al Fadhli, a Yemeni who fought alongside al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin in Afghanistan. When more than 4,000 Arabs returned from fighting the Soviets there, al Ahmar organized them into units and deployed them in the 1994 civil war.

Compared to his military predecessor, Musharraf, who touts the catch phrase of enlightened moderation, is conveniently progressive. Whereas the devoutly religious Zia was useful for boosting religious Islamic sentiments against the Soviets, Musharraf is needed nowadays to contain those very forces, which threaten not just global security but Pakistan itself.

There were, for example, those who questioned whether the Cold War was in fact necessary and whether the Soviet Union and Communism constituted a threat. Such revisionists were a distinct minority, which is a good thing, as there is no reason to believe that the Soviets and Communism were a benign force.

A second and very different school of thought emphasizes less what the West did and more what the Soviet Union was. In this narrative, the Cold War was not so much won by the US and the West as lost by the Soviets, the inevitable result of Soviet economic weakness and political decay.

If Xi s efforts to root out corruption in the PLA can accomplish these three objectives, one must grudgingly admit that it will be a stroke of political genius. But, to ensure that China is in the strongest possible position, Xi must learn one more lesson from the Soviets Purges can easily lead to excesses.

During the Cold War, neighbors often competed with each other by choosing sides allying themselves with either the United States or the Soviet Union. Pakistan tilted towards the Americans India towards the Soviets. Countries had little incentive to make peace with their neighbors as long as they enjoyed the financial support of the US or the USSR.

I recently watched the film Charlie Wilson s War, which relates how the United States came to arm the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. At the end of the film, as America s erstwhile clients turn into the Taliban, Wilson, the American politician who got them the money, is quoted as saying We won a great victory, but fouled up the end game.

Based on that doubt, France a nuclear power since 1960 withdrew in 1966 from the Alliance s permanent centralized military command in order to assert its own deterrent capability. This decision was mainly grounded on the American doctrine, adopted in 1962, of flexible response, which said to the Soviets As long as you do not use nuclear weapons, we will not use them, either.

After the collapse in 1945 of the Japanese empire, which had ruled quite brutally over the whole of Korea since 1910, the Soviet Red Army occupied the north, and the US occupied the south. The Soviets plucked a relatively obscure Korean communist, Kim Il sung, from an army camp in Vladivostok, and installed him in Pyongyang as the leader of North Korea.

Robert McNamara, Kennedy s secretary of defense, said he became more cautious as the crisis unfolded. At the time, he thought that the probability of nuclear war resulting from the crisis might have been one in 50 (though he rated the risk much higher after he learned in the 1990 s that the Soviets had already delivered nuclear weapons to Cuba).

He did not see how the situation could possibly have escalated to nuclear war, and thus had been willing to push the Soviets harder and to take more risks than McNamara was. General Maxwell Taylor, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also believed that the risk of nuclear war was low, and he complained that the US let the Soviet Union off too easily.

This illiterate, armed, Wahhabi brand of ideology was imported as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted recently before House Appropriations Committee by the US from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries in order to undermine the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980 s. Once the mission was accomplished and the Soviets vanquished, the Wahhabi virus was left to fester in Pakistan s border areas.

Totalitarian regimes the Nazis, the Soviets in 1980, and now the Chinese desire to host the Olympics as a way to signal to the world their superiority. China believes that it has found its own model to develop and modernize, and its rulers regard the Games in the same way as the Nazis and Leonid Brezhnev did, as a means of selling their model to a global audience.

Despite fierce opposition from religious parties, there have been minor victories, like a couple of madrassahs agreeing to include secular subjects like math, English, and computer studies in their curricula. There has also been administrative action against a few religious institutions for encroaching on public space practically unheard of since official patronage of religious parties began in the 1970's, when their cadres were needed in the war against the Soviets.

Through their huge purchases of goods, with promises of even more to come, today s authoritarian mercantilist regimes in Russia and China may be about to achieve by commerce what the Soviets could not achieve by bribery and threats. And the scale of that commerce is breathtaking, with German exports to China growing from 25.9 billion a decade ago to 87.6 billion in 2011, while South Korea s exports have increased from 53 billion to 133 billion during the same period of time.

In answer to the question posed by the representative of Armenia regarding the nature of the legal basis asserted by Azerbaijan, he said that the conflict could be regarded as having begun on 20 February 1988, when the regional Soviet of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Region had adopted a decision to petition the Supreme Soviets of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Armenian SSR for the transfer of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Region from the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR.