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the question whether capitalism is more correct than socialism. And although I have always leaned more towards socialism, probably due to my father who was a former member of the Communist Party and a member of the Socialist Democratic Party in Lithuania, studying the different schools of thought made me believe that I was on the right track to finding the answer to my question. The works that I have read influenced me to begin thinking in a different way about the way our society should…

Supposedly, not as many Americans have heard of the Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws by issuing thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced…

Joshua Stobbe October 2017 Communism Albert Zhuravlev About the author: Albert Zhuravlev was a Russian citizen living in Moscow. He was one of many who did not agree with communism. He wrote this because communism took everything that he had, as well as his family. The year 1929, and Russia has a new dictator. His name is Joseph Stalin, and how he imposes communism cruelly. Communism is now worse than before. Communism is when the government decides what you get, what products you sell and…

Lithuania declared independence from former Russian Empire as after became new country in 1923. Germany lost land mostly to poland because of than of non-Polish minorities on areas claimed by Poland and the ongoing civilian. Treaty of Versailles was important…

The two topics I will be focusing on in this paper are, adapting and facing discrimination. The name of the person I interviewed is Raimonda came from Lithuania. She moved to America when she was 3 years old. Moved into a small apartment in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York. When she lived in Deizimelis Lithuania, she said it was a very small town. People were poor. People grew their own food majority of people who lived in that town only had one car per family. They would have to drive a…

and families, not the church (1989; 1990). Nonetheless, their suicide rates are among some of the lowest in Europe. On the other hand, the situation in the Eastern Europe is a completely different story. For example, the previously used example of Lithuania is a great example of Roman Catholicism not being a preventative factor against suicide. According to the national census, in 2011 over 75% of the population considered themselves as Roman Catholic (Official Statistics Portal 2013). The…

age. It eventually led him to become the man who decided to defect from the Soviet Union with a small cult of like minded officers in his nuclear submarine, the Red October. Marko Ramius had a grandmother named Hilda Ramius who lived in Lithuania. His mother had died shortly after his birth and Marko felt he had never known her. Marko lived with his grandmother in a small village close to the ocean. He infrequently…

wild mushrooms or fish soup is eaten. Also boiled or deep fried pierogis which are dumplings filled with either sauerkraut, mushrooms, smashed poppy seeds and other ingredients. For dessert doughnuts filled with jam in Poland and the Ukraine but in Lithuania sweet dishes are not…

During the Holocaust, there were many people who knew of the crimes that the Nazis were committing against the Jews. Out of the many people who stood up against Germany, Chiune Sugihara was one them. Since he was working as a diplomat, he was able to distribute train visas to help people escape the country. Sugihara was able save more than 2,000 Jews from the Holocaust in 1940. Chiune Sugihara was born on January 1st, 1900 in Mino, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. His parents were Yoshimi…

Russian did not allow the, to cross-examine the miscreants. The second attack moved by Chaim Nachman Bialik to write a famous poem, In the City of Slaughter, which resonated among the Jewish intelligentsia. More importantly, the Zionists (Usshishin) and Revisionist’s (Jabotinsky) and Territorialist (Zangwell) were highly offended at the cavalier treatment of this activity. Galicia After the Third Partition (1795) of the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Austria annexed most of Lesser Poland,…