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USSR in WW2
The Russian participation in World War 2, in both the European and Pacific theaters of the war.
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Why nsync disband?
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The male vocal group N'SYNC disbanded due to some band members having desires to pursue solo opportunities with full focus.
How many military deaths did the US sustain in World War 2 compared to the USSR?
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The overall number of war dead (military and civilian) for the two countries is: US - 418,000 (miltary - about 416,800) USSR - 23.6 million (military - 10.7 milion) The Soviet figure is subject to revision.
What happened to the Communist ruling class in the Soviet Union by the 1970's?
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The ruling class in the USSR was capitalist. Communism has no classes and no rulers.
What was the effect of the allies being unable to ship war supplies to Russia ports during world war 1?
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Russia had to depend on themselves to stop germanys expansion since there ports were unavailable
What group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the soviet union?
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The Warsaw Pact.
What was Operation Tonga in World War 2?
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Operation Tonga was the British Airborne effort as part of the D-Day
landings in Normandy. It involved the British 6th Airborne Division's effort
to deny German reinforcements access to the crossing on the Orne River.
What happened to the communist block after the fall of the soviet union?
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The so-called communist bloc was really state capitalist. After the fall of theUSSR, it became mainly private capitalist. Communism means no money, no classes, no government, no rulers.
What does extra urban mean when talking about mpg?
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'Urban' used in conjunction with mpg typically refers to the fuel consumption of the vehicle driven in city or town conditions. This normally involves stop/start driving, braking and accelerating and little cruising at optimal fuel consumption speeds. Vehicles use more fuel in urban driving conditions than when cruising on the freeways. Manufacturers normally provide "urban" fuel economy figures and "combined" figures. The latter refer to a combination of town driving and highway cruising, arguably a more accurate reflection of the vehicle's fuel economy than its optimal (cruising) or worst (urban) consumption.
What did KGB stand for in the Soviet Union?
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Committee or commission for State Security. the umbrella agency roughly combined the powers of the American Secret service ( counterfeiting, also protecting Soviet bigwigs and an escort squad for visiting celebrities. Intelligence, cryptography ( codes, etc) military intelligence and counterspy activities- the equivalent of the FBI for domestic law enforcement- only crimes going across republic lines- again like our FBI both agencies had huge files, crime labs, forensics. this is just the beginnings, they also encompassed the roles of the Border patrol and police ( sharing some jobs with the Red Army) the KGB had and used air, automobiles, and MARINE CRAFT and may have had their own submarines for spy purposes. in any case there was a uniformed KGB officer on every Red Fleet submarine- and he answered to KGB, not the Naval high command in Moscow. KGB is arguably the largest organizational structure of its type, roughly comb ine CIA< FBI, part of G-2, Border Patrol, and Secret Service ( anti-financial crimes and bodyguard functions- and you may come close, comrade. It shoudl be noted regular domestic cops in, say Moscow were MVD men, not KGB. Katharine:s Good Boys, indeed!
Who was the leader of the communist party in the soviet union during most of president eisenhower's administration?
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Nikita Khrushchev
Which world war 2 leader could be described as a fascist?
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The fascist leaders that I can currently think of are Adolf Hitler (Germany) and Benito Mussolini (Italy).
What is the strongest gun ever made?
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the 700 nitro express is a beast
the .700 nitro express or the 4 bore
What European capital was freed from Nazi control on June 4 1944?
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Who transformed the Soviet Union?
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It was one from it's inception, or about a microsecond after the Kerensky Revolution was betrayed. To the extent the Communists lacked control, was the extent they were not fully totalitarian. As no government ever has 100% "full" control, it is meaningless then to debate which dictator started it. The first one started it, the next ones just kept expanding it and solidifying it.
Why did many victims of the Holocaust not resist?
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There are many reasons:
Jews were generally well mannered, law abiding citizens.
The first and foremost being that unlike some events in history, there is not one defining moment that what was happening, or going to happen, really became clear. Over the course of many years, small steps were taken, and each one involved deceit. Many under the guise of doing things good for the Jewish society/people.
After being socially outcast, demorialized and literally beaten upon, in all ways, over the course of several years, while the Nazi regeme itself was gaining more and more power itself and over others, they were a rather downtrodden group. So when the government says, prepare to be relocated, for your own safety (so we can protect you from those buring your houses down for example), you may tend to believe it. At least want to. The relocation centers were extermination camps...but they weren't called that...sometimes because of how hard it is to deal with, they still aren't!
Any resisitance at any point was met with severe action - certain death - public ridicule and execution - for the one doing it...and most likely his family and friends. And maybe just for good measure...any instance of it required say 50 others to be executed openly as punishment for the group...that has the effect of not just dispelling people trying...but even making some turn them in out of fear.
And consider the US experience similar: The Balck activists gave the while bigots even more of a reason to hate...fear of theose lawless acts...buring of cities, etc. To them it just proved that the people were "animals". The great Martin Luther King (like Ghandi), showed a non violent approach helped disable the adversaries arguments. (However, the Jews were dealing with Nazi's at their height of power and had no MLK stepping up).
Remember, were talking about resisting...that is organizig and fighting...the well armed and trained Nazi powers in their already well occupied and controlled lands...something that would seem futile, even impossible...even when tried by well trained and supplied military forces - some even defending their own homelands with the support of everyone and thing there...was generally unsuccesful.
Just like people today try and make sense of this nonsencial situation....and compassionate people cannot come to terms with what happened....while it was happening...while the unbelievable was happening...it was yet harder to understand. People simply did not know - nor could they possibly be expected to believe - what lay ahead - even for themselves. The government hid (and denied any inference of) it's actions...
Once people are starved, and gone through years of hardship, their will to fight is broken...the promise of a potato in the "soup" that evening is enough to get submission...it takes energy to mobilize.
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I want to congratulate the author of what is above, which explains in detail the process used by the Nazis to submit human beings.
There was a time when some Jewish (Ben Gurion) claimed that the victims of the Shoah "deserved" their faith for not having resisted. The idea had its popularity among the Jews in the years of creation of Israel.
I feel annoyed by that question, by implying they could have a responsability, it can sound like a denial of the fact that the people who died in the death camps were the victims.
An answer could be another question : What would you do if men with guns threaten your life and your families' ?
To resist is easier to say than to do. Especially for a Jew in Europe in the 40's. Some had resisted in Eastern Europe (Warsaw Ghetto, in Czecoslovicia, in Hungary ...), but those resistances were wipped up.
What qualities did gorbachev possess that made the politburo choose him th become the soviet leader?
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He got rid of Stalin's labour camps/gulags, got rid of the NKVD, got rid of Stalin's labour camps/gulags, allowed the first religious broadcast on television in the 80's and brought in things from the west (mcdonalds music tv shows)
What country did Joseph Stalin control inww2?
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At the end of World War 2, the Soviets either took or were given various countries. These included Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary.
How do the soviet union relates to the world war 2?
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well they helped a lot and they defeated a lot
Was stalin's rule beneficial to the soviet union?
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He did help to modernise the country, but it can be argued that he was responsible for the death of up to 20 million people, so it depends which way you read it.
How did the nazi-soviet pact cause world war 2?
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact Was an agreement made between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union right before World War II. It was signed by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov, giving the agreement its nickname: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This pact shocked the world because until that time Germany and the Soviet Union had acted like mortal enemies. The countries made two agreements: the first dealt with economic relations, while the second was a non-aggression pact. The economic agreement, signed on August 19, 1939, called for an exchange of goods worth 200 million reichsmarks. Four days later, Ribbentrop went to Moscow to sign the non-aggression pact. The two countries agreed not to attack each other or help another party attack the other side for a period of 10 years. The pact also included a secret attachment concerning the division of various territories. The Baltic States (Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia) and Bessarabia were to be part of the Soviet sphere, while Lithuania's claim of Vilna and its surroundings was acknowledged by the Germans. Poland was to be divided between the two countries. A week after the second agreement was signed, Germany invaded Poland. The Soviet Union took over the eastern part of the country, including western Belorussia and the western Ukraine, while Germany occupied the rest. In 1940 the Soviets annexed the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and northern Bukovina. However, the pact was abruptly broken by the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. This caused World War 2 because this gave Hitler more power because he did not have to fight on two fronts. He thought that with Stalin's army, alongside his, he would win the war. Moreover, the Nazis thought that with this pact, Russia could not help Britan and France as they had no America to help them which would have resulted as a lost war for the French and British.
Why was communist China so successful?
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Communism has never existed in the People's Republic of China.
The official economic model utilized in China is the "Socialist market economy" or "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", which is actually just a state capitalist economy based on state-owned enterprises and free-markets.
The government of China is run by the Communist Party, but that says nothing about the actual system over which the government presides over. Many high-ranking Communist party members are actually wealthy capitalists.
What impact did the dissolution of union of soviet socialist republics have?
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affected nations throughout the world
Who was allied with Serbia in World War 1?
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Great Britain, France, Belgium, Russia. Russia backed Serbia. As Russia was allies with Britain and France through the triple entente, Serbia had their backing as well. Eventually, America and Belgium supported them too.
