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Polish forces replace Soviet tanks with cutting-edge K2 Black Panther tanks
The new tanks will replace the post-Soviet T-72 tanks. The Polish Army is expanding with additional K2 Black Panther tanks. The latest delivery arrived in Poland in mid-December, bringing the ...
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A Secret Cable and a Clue to Where U.S.-Russia Relations Went Wrong
Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia and that democracy ...
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Return to Soviet Union unlikely and possible only through conflicts — Putin
TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin called a return to the Soviet Union unlikely and possible only through "very hard conflicts". "Socialism in full, that’s my own opinion, is unlikely [to ...
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Soviet Modernism – a parallel history of architecture and urbanism that is an issue of current debate
After losing a great number of masterpiece buildings from the Soviet period, post-Soviet societies started to realize not only the significance of those buildings as architectural and historical ...
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Brazil helped Soviet support operation for Argentina during the Falklands conflict
The first contact of Soviet diplomats offering support to Argentina occurred a week after the conflict began, on April 9, according to a report from the Brazilian navy. However the first aircraft ...
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Attempt to retain power as Soviet leader by force would have sparked conflict - Gorbachev
Attempts to use force to stay in power would have triggered an acute civil conflict with unpredictable consequences, he believes. "Those were dark days for the Soviet Union and for Russia.