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Soviet Union (USSR)
The Soviet Union was a Communist State and the inheritor of the vast Russian Empire's territory. It existed from 1922, at the end of the Russian Revolution, until 1991 when the fifteen Soviet Republics became independent countries. The Soviet Union was treated with both scorn and reverence by the Western Powers and opposed the United States throughout the Cold War.
4,001 Questions
In the kitchen debate Soviet leader Nikita argued that?
American house were built poorly so builders could sell more homes in the future.-Apex
What is by far the largest of the fifteen former soviet socialist republics in population size?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The USSR was the whole thing, including Russia. Kazakhstan was the next largest after Russia.
Ronald Reagan believed a major military build up by the US would lead to an implosion of the political system in the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union wanted a peaceful co-existence with the West what was meant by this?
They have had no plans for peaceful coexistence. For the past 60 years they have tried to influence other countries around the world and to push their communist agenda. This is what the Cold War was all about. The Soviet's pushing communist states and the Western nations doing everything to contain the communist party.
What Soviet leader worked with Nixon on a policy of detente?
There were two different leaders during that time. Nikita Khruschev was leader when Nixon became president in 1969. He died in 1971 and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev, who was there for the rest of Nixon's term.
What are some of the reasons for the Soviet placement of missiles in Cuba?
The Soviets already knew that the US had nuclear missiles in Turkey, placing nuclear missiles in Cuba would simply achieve nuclear parity. Also following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion the leader of Cuba Fidel Castro wanted assurance from the Soviets of their security against future invasion, the Soviets believed that nuclear missiles would provide this security at the least cost.
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How did the Soviet-Afghan War start and end?
The Soviet Union collapsed while their forces were still fighting in Afghanistan. The new government in Moscow made the decision to withdraw. I did not see it myself, but I was told that the Soviet commander in Afghanistan got out of his vehicle at the border and waited until he was the last one, and then he walked across.and after the soviet was gone the US lost interest in the unstable country and left it to civil war with the mujaheddin fighting its own people.
What shaped the policy of the US toward the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union was a ruthless expansionist empire, as shown both by its actions, in overrunning Eastern Europe, and its statements, such as, most famously, that of Nikita Kruschev who said "we will bury you" in a UN speech (not very diplomatic of him). The USSR was also very heavily armed with both conventional and nuclear weapons. As a result, US policy was shaped by fear.
Who led Soviet Union after Stalin?
The Soviet leaders after Stalin were:
Georgy Malenkov (March 6 to March 13 1953)
Nikita Khruschev (1953 - 1964)
Leonid Brezhnev (1964 - 1982)
Yuri Andropov (1982 - 1984)
Konstantin Chernenko (1982 - 1985)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1985 - 1991)
When Soviet Union troops withdraw from Afghanistan?
The Mujahedin forces that resisted the U.S.S.R during the Soviet Invasion were sponsored/advised by a covert branch of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The withdrawal of Soviet troops served as a theological victory for the United States, who at the time was in a Cold War with the Soviets. It also served to reinforce the Afghan mystique, that no invader has succeeded in taking Afghanistan from the Afghans.
Why was one big Union seen as a threat?
government and business leaders painted the One Big Union as a Bolshevik menace, and claimed that it threatened the safety of the country.
How many Jews died in Soviet concentration camps?
I would say about 60,000 if not more Jews were killed in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler despised the Jews B/C they refused to believe like he did. It was all about religion. The Jews wanted to keep their religion and did not want to change it. On the other hand, Hitler wanted them to convert to his religion. B/C they refused it caused their death. I won't argue with the numbers because I don't know, but you are wrong about the reason. It wasn't the Jewish religion Hitler objected to. It was the Jewish race. Anyone with one Jewish grandparent was subject to all the discriminatory laws no matter what church they belonged to or what god they believed in. - The Holocaust had nothing to do with religion. - Most souces give a much higher figure than that in the first answer - usually about 1.5 million Soviet Jews killed by the Nazis in WWII (out of a total of about 2.6 million). Over 33,000 Jews were killed in the Babi Yar massacre just outside Kiev, and there were many other such massacres.
When did the cold war between united state and soviet union happened?
The dates usually applied to the Cold War are 1947-1991. It had a lot to do with the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany after WWII, and tension between the USA and the USSR which resulted in the arms race.
How was Lithuania before the Soviet Union?
Honestly? Lithuania was great! We were a nice country with no corrupted (well, in these days...) politicians, our basketball team was probably the best in the world, many noble and smart people got back in Lithuania from US or Canada (they came back when the WWII begun, and the Soviets ocupated Lithuania), and also, Lithuania had really great economy, and we were able to travel much more.
Who was the leader of soviet union when the us entered world war 2?
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union when the United States entered World War 2.
What was the promise Hitler made to The Soviet Union?
Peace and not in to invade....but he soon invaded
Why relations between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia change in the late 1960s?
On the 20th of August 1968, troops and tanks from the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. This brought an immediate change in relations between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and was due to increasing opposition to communism within Czechoslovakia, leading to reforms under Dubcek, and the reactions of Moscow to these reforms.
The first reason for a change in relations was the growth of opposition in Czechoslovakia to Soviet control. This was due to what the Soviet Union had done in 1948, they murdered Jan Masaryk. Once Jan was killed the elections were rigged and they put Antonin Novotny in power from 1957. Antonin was very unpopular amongst the Czechs as he was a hard-line communist who followed closely in the Soviet Union's footsteps and wouldn't introduce reform no matter what the Czechs wanted. He was very slow to flow Khrushchev's destalinization policy but he took much longer to release political prisoners who were jailed because of Stalin. This all caused more people to oppose the Soviet Union.
Furthermore the Soviets were concerned because: they didn't want the new ideas from Czechoslovakia to spread, Czechoslovakia was becoming closer to West Germany and industrial relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia were improving. In 1968 on the 20-21 of August hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops along with troops from Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland and Hungary and were greeted with petrol bombs being thrown at them, as well as, buildings being set on fire, protestors assembling in Wenceslas Square, barricades being set up in streets, students tearing down street names to confuse invaders, students climbing into the tanks to try and argue with the Soviet soldiers as they were so desperate and the anti-Soviet broadcasters kept on broadcasting by moving from hiding place to hiding place but there wasn't any resistance by the Czechoslovakian army as they were ordered not to fight back and so around 100 people died, another thing that happened in 1968 was Dubcek and the other leaders being arrested and escorted to Moscow. These had consequences like the demonstrations, which continued going until April 1969, the Czech communist party being purged and the Brezhnev document - this doctrine redefined communism as a one-party system and declared that all member countries had to remain part of the Warsaw Pact
Why did the Soviet Union invade its own ally Czechoslovakia?
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union were part of the Warsaw Pact in the 1960s- an organization of the then-Communist states in Europe. In 1968 a leader of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, decided to reform his country's military and media. He introduced forms of democracy. These were soon considered by the Soviet Union to be dangerous to the Communist Party and they thought the reforms would decrease the Party's power. Therefore, they attacked Czechoslovakia to prevent the reforms from going through, retaining their powerr.
