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20.10.2010, 17:58
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Despite 50 years of US blockade, Cuba has somehow survived as one of the few remaining communist states. So is it worth keeping? RT looks at the pros and cons of the sanctions.
31.12.2009, 13:38
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When the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, declared his resignation hours before the year 2000 began, not only did he thus close his own rich political career, but also ended a whole era in modern Russian history.
19.02.2010, 19:01
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Russian activists in Crimea have held a mourning rally to mark the date when Nikita Khrushchev formally gave the Black Sea republic to Ukraine.
24.09.2010, 17:32
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The Iranian president pulled no punches during his speech before the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, saying the US government may have had a hand in the attacks of 9/11.
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02.09.2009, 01:51
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Leaders from 20 counties are in Poland, the first country that was attacked by Nazi Germany, to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of Second World War.
24.12.2009, 21:26
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A Russian Orthodox Church representative has proposed declaring January 7 the “Day of Napoleon’s Expulsion” from the country in 1812 and a national holiday.
27.12.2009, 08:27
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Thirty years ago thousands of Soviet troops were deployed to Afghanistan. Within a few days they launched a special operation storming the Presidential palace and toppling the then-Afghan leader.
22.04.2010, 14:10
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It is 140 years since the father of Russian communism, Vladimir (Ulyanov) Lenin, was born and although it's being marked in Russia and worldwide, Lenin's mark on 20th century history remains deeply divisive.
14.05.2010, 07:20
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After NATO was formed in 1949, the Soviet Union built up its own military alliance, the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Union and seven European socialist states joined the treaty on May 14, 1955.
07.06.2009, 04:49
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Thousands of people gathered in Normandy to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Published: 06 August, 2009, 17:25
Estonia is holding its annual military exercise based on the 1941 behind-the-frontline raid of the Erna group. The group, which was Nazi-supported, fought soviet troops during WWII in Estonian territory, but was crushed.
I absolutely agree with the first commentator. It's a shame on a supposedly democratic country to publish articles that full of propaganda and bias.
Do you suggest that Estonia should not have fought against the Soviet mass-murderers of their population? Read a bit of history, and learn what the Soviets did to Estonia in 1940-41, at a time when Estonia was at war with no one at all. And what the Soviets did again from 1945 all the way until 1991. Of course Estonians fought them in 1941, and in 1944-45, and in forest-based guerrilla actions for the next ten years or more. When military resistance became no longer possible, they fought Moscow’s totalitarian dictates with their wits in Soviet-imposed civil institutions throughout the ensuing decades of occupation. And when the opportunity finally came in at the end of 1991, they saw the Soviet occupation off. Nazi Germany was a flash in the pan – it would lose the war and be gone pretty quickly anyway, thanks largely to the efforts of the Red Army. But the Red Army itself would return to stay, and to continue the incredible brutalities of Stalin and his successors against the Baltics and others. That is why the future of Estonia depended on trying to keep Russians from returning to their country in hope that the war would end first. They failed in this, and Soviet horror descended on them again for decades, thus providing total justification for their attempts to fight against it.