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    The country that I am from has a lot of good places to go such museums and bunch of historical places. I am originally from Russia Moscow and I have lived there for 15 years . My nationality is Armenian and so my whole family. Before coming to USA I have studied little bit of English in Russia and that was really hard for me to do. Also in Russian schools English is mandatory to take for the graduation. I have moved to California 3 years ago and that was a really hard time for me to do because…

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    were secretly trying to deal withdrawal of missiles from Turkey in exchange for Soviet Union’s leaving of Cuba. The same day a U-2 was shot down over Cuba and another one was strayed over the Soviet territory. The U-2 was shot not by the orders of Moscow, in fact, it was initiated not even by the Soviet commanders. Kennedy was not sure how to react to such moves and the head of the Air Force have proposed an immediate bombing of the island. Luckely so, JFK has called for a pause for a couple…

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    In Fail Safe, Americans focus on the malfunction of machines ordering bombers to attack Moscow, but don’t have the ability to call them back due to Soviets technology jamming. This is an interesting play on how technological developments in both nations lead to the start of a misunderstanding and the beginning of very difficult choices made…

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    On November 11th, 1821 in Moscow, Russia, one of the most renown Russian authors and philosophers was born: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky was raised in a family with good means (as their father was a recognized doctor by the Russian Government) and his family was also extremely religious (especially his father) which shaped his God-centered view of morality from a young age. However, given their situation (living in a poor district on the edge of Moscow in order to live near the Hospital,…

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    As we have seen from the last chapter, Russian women under the Bolsheviks and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom could not reconcile their goals and create a WILPF section. The ideals and goals of the Soviet government and WILPF were too divergent, too different to develop a national section. Russian women were forced to look to other organisations to forge international connections with women of other nationalities; the defining characteristic of these organisations was that…

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    Orwell Warns the Democratic West Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, mirrors Russian history through a plot-alternating novel, and teaches readers about the negative effects of the totalitarian government which was being created in the Soviet Union. In the novel, a group of animals, striving for independency and the chance at an all equal government, take over their human owners’ farm because the leaders do not give or care enough for the animals. The mixture of personalities lead to…

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    After the end of World War II, the only two superpowers left in the world were the United States and the Soviet Union. With both trying to assert their influence in rebuilding destroyed European nations, tensions flared between communist Russia and capitalist America; this was the cause of the start of the Cold War in 1945. During the Cold War, the US and USSR competed to assert capitalism or communism—respectively—on the newly rebuilding economies in Europe. As the Cold War dragged on into the…

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    I spent my childhood in Russia, even though I was born in Finland, where my parents came from Russia for qualified medical help. I have a very interesting family, my grandmother Galina Dymshakova- chemistry professor, author of 160 inventions in the field of agricultural chemistry. In particular, it is the inventor of pesticides that have turned the whole agricultural sector in the world. At the same time, despite the fact that all inventions worth its name, it is not the owner of the patent, as…

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    Pan-Africanism, which is the principle of the political union of all the indigenous natives of Africa. With his outspoken attitude he realizes what the United States thought of him, he became interested in Russia which allows him to reside in the city of Moscow with his family. During this time his relationship with the U.S.S.R became highly controversial during the Cold War. When he eventually did go back to the United States for to receive accolades for his stage work in 1943. He found himself…

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    Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and one that was considered the model satellite state. Antonin Novotny, the first secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, was replaced by Alexander Dubcek in January of 1968. Dubcek represented the moderate reform element in the party and as a Slovak he also represented the Slovak interests that had been neglected. However, changes in Soviet rule over the Czechs allowed changes to be made in Czechoslovakia. For example, during…

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