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The story of the all-but-invincible Soviet hockey team of the '70s and '80s, and their journey from heroes of the Motherland to enemies of the state ... Polsky makes up for his deficits as a journalist, though, with his entertaining mix of archival Soviet footage, American and Soviet propaganda, extensive interviews and an awareness of how and why the Red Army story figured in the world at large....
Newsday 2015-03-19Nearly sixty years ago, there was trouble in Poland and more so in Hungary, both Soviet satellite states ... The pressure, and the stakes, grew when what had started as street protests became a full-fledged uprising and the Soviet Union used tanks to crush it with deadly force....
New Yorker 2015-03-19This year's Victory Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II ... Ties between North Korea and Russia date back to World War II, when Kim Jong Un's grandfather and founder of the country, Kim Il Sung, trained as a communist guerrilla leader in the Soviet Union. Throughout Kim's subsequent reign, the Soviet Union backed the nation....
CNN 2015-03-19On Oct. 4, 1957, the space age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. For the next dozen years, the United States and the Soviet Union battled for dominance in spaceflight capability. ....
New York Times 2015-03-19The European Union and United States have imposed sanctions on Russia over its role in the Ukraine separatist conflict ... Other leaders, mainly from Asia, former Soviet republics and Latin America, will also attend ... China has said it would like to develop friendly co-operation with Ukraine and repeatedly said it respects the ex-Soviet state’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity ... ....
South China Morning Post 2015-03-19men’s Olympic hockey team skated to semifinal glory against the Soviet Union in Lake Placid in 1980 during the height of the Cold War. We know the feared Soviets were exceptional, their defeat forever labeled “the Miracle on Ice.” But most may not realize exactly how historically brilliant they were. The Soviet hockey team, known as the Red Army, was one of the most elite group of athletes to ever perform together.MyStatesman.com ... News....
Austin American Statesman 2015-03-19MOSCOW On the first anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, Russians celebrated Wednesday while Ukrainians vowed that the Black Sea territory would eventually return to their control ... Many Russians have recaptured a self-respect that they lost with the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union ... Putin had long been unhappy that Crimea had remained part of Ukraine following the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union ... -....
U~T San Diego 2015-03-19Soviet spy Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) wants to shoot Eugene, but South African freedom fighter Reuben Ncgobo (Dwayne Alistair Thomas) has other ideas ... First, Nina must befriend a Jewish scientist forced to develop stealth technology for the Soviet military....
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-19The Mathematician's Shiva. A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer. Penguin Books, 365 pages , $16.00 ... Then, she quietly fades away ... Rachela's genius, we learn, first became apparent at the age of 11 when she and her father were almost starving to death in a Soviet Gulag camp in Siberia ... She ruthlessly abandoned her husband and son in the Soviet Union when the chance came to defect, leaving them to figure out a way to rejoin her years later ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-03-19Mr. Hartman, who was appointed envoy to the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan, filled a dozen or so economic and diplomatic Foreign Service posts over four decades. ....
New York Times 2015-03-19(Adds details, background) ... 24, Feb. 19 and on Feb ... The former Soviet republic's economy has been battered by a plunge in Russia's rouble and the conflict in Ukraine, along with declining exports, remittances and foreign investment and a rising current account deficit....
Reuters 2015-03-19Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, last month compared the current conversation of American exceptionalism to Soviet Russia ... The Soviet empire was in its death throes and most people there, particularly the younger ones, knew it ... the post-soviet pining for the old days and what we're seeing now among many from the right wing in this country....
Huffington Post 2015-03-19(Source. Widener University) ... Marking its 12th season this fall, the series opens on Oct ... 8, 2016); Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords (March 14, 2016), commander of the Endeavor space shuttle and former Arizona Congresswoman; and Dennis Ross (April 4, 2016), a specialist in Middle East and Soviet policy who served as a diplomat under four U.S ... Dr ... With specialties in Soviet and Middle East policy, he has served as a diplomat under four U.S....
noodls 2015-03-19The Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз, tr. Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲetskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪˈstʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪsˈpublʲɪk] ( listen); abbreviated СССР, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly centralized government and economy.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle for power between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed with the merger of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Is it any wonder how the world spins it's lonely days for me, like a record with it's bruises skips a beat of history. In between the grooves is where I lie, wondering where this lover hides.
To the girl with the marble eyes, can it be that you've taken me by surprise? The wind and rain have carried your fame to my front door in spite of my heart's refrain. Capulet and Montegue, never even heard of me and you. I'll keep this secret of how I adore, this passion girl that I was looking for.
Somehow here we are standing in the rain again. If we could only run away, take this train to better days.
To the girl with the marble eyes, can it be that you've taken me by surprise? The wind and rain have carried your fame to my front door in spite of my heart's refrain. Capulet and Montegue, never even heard of me and you. I'll keep this secret of how I adore, this passion girl that I was looking for.
Can I feel that it's all around, in your eyes there lies this perfect sound.
Uhhmmm . . . . I digress.