Eastern State Penitentiary

Ambushed Prelude I joined the ranks of the Red Army in 1940 when I was only 18, just one year before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. My family was from Byelorussia, and immigrated to Russia in the 1800’s and settled down in Stalingrad, where I lived before I joined the army. My grandmother used to tell me stories of how my grandpa fought in the Russian Civil War, against the Tsarist White Army in the Saratov region. He served as a Senior Lieutenant, commanding his own motorised…

Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern Europe was interpreted by the United States as an attempt to spread communism around the world. The United States was highly against communism. The U.S., being a capitalistic run nation, felt worried for other nations who possibly could not afford fighting against the Soviet Union. Concerned that Greece and Turkey might be the next countries to fall to Stalin, President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine. This stated that the United States would give…

Take it down, the berlin Wall speech Hello I am Mary Green and that may not mean anything to you but I was there when the Berlin wall came down 4 months ago. The Berlin wall caused many people to be in pain and caused multiple conflicts between many people and even other countries. In the 1945, Germany was split into these four parts; the soviet Union, England, US, and France. The four parts decided to split the city berlin into two parts, east and west berlin. Soviets claimed the east…

East Germany maintained the Bismarckian model of universal and comprehensive healthcare coverage by organizing a single, state-managed health insurance network. Initially, the East German healthcare service achieved some success, most notably in the areas of maternal care and ambulatory care centers and polyclinics – multispecialty groups of salaried physicians working in conjunction with public health workers, social workers, and other personnel. Nearly eighty-nine percent of the East German…

Gwen McFerran Mrs. Cullen AP World History May 8, 2017 Living in West Berlin vs East Berlin: Thesis Paper The Berlin Wall was built in the August of 1961, when the East German soldiers constructed more than thirty miles of a barbed wire barrier through the center of Berlin, Germany. The citizens of East Berlin were forbidden to pass into the Western side. Soon this barbed wire would be replaced by concrete. (Taylor, 458) East German authorities revealed that this wall would protect their…

superpower in the 20th century they gave money, weapons, and physically occupied countries. Since they wanted territory, they gave Cuba missiles so they could fight the United States, and supported them economically. They invaded Afghanistan because they wanted oil, materials, location, and trade ports. Finally, they wanted the Eastern Bloc as a buffer and wanted their materials. To achieve this buffer zone the Soviets established their presence and secured Communist governments there. Since…

with the communist party imperial elites and the military. These struggles led to failures which added to the fall of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev practically finished himself. The Soviet Union was already weakening since it refused to assist the Eastern Bloc countries and join in their affairs. The Soviet Union was already experiencing food shortages and dealing with a failing…

split apart by two superpowers fighting for control of the world. This city becomes a symbol of the split between two very different worlds. That is what the city of Berlin, Germany was during the Cold War, a competition between the Capitalist United States of America and the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union. Berlin became a symbol of what the Cold War was doing to the world. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, entire families were severed apart by the two…

between the United States and the Soviet Union (Schmemann 23). The U.S. and Soviet Union had been allies throughout World War II against Germany, however both countries held rival ideals and saw each other as potential enemies. The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin took every advantage he could during the war to seize control of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. There was not a doubt in anyone’s mind that Stalin wanted to further spread the Soviet system to Eastern European…

The headline reported by Childs (1989) screamed that the Berliners were celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall. This was after a period of three decades where the West was kept apart from the East Berliners. The communists’ rulers/leaders in the East Germany authorized the gates along the wall to be opened. Huge amount of individuals had converged at the walls crossing point before the permission was granted. People from the East Germany shouted and cheered while surging towards the wall as…