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Comment preview: That's why there's an 's' on the end. The invasion of the Bukharan Emirate by the Soviet army happened initially in 1919 and it's formal annexation didn't occur until 1920. The Emirate had been under the control of Russia since their war in the 1860s bu ....
Comment preview: History is full of shit like that like for one. 1.) Russia may not have ended up communist or at least not the version we knew were it not for the fact that Germany released an exiled Lenin back into Czarist Russia to undermine the royal family and bring a ....
Comment preview: hi! sure, this sub is fine for a question like this. There's *lots* of room for more input on this, but I'll get you started on a few earlier posts. * [During the Cold War, did the Soviets have their own James Bond character in the media? A hero who fought ....
Comment preview: > as we know Russians have sick menality, they are sado-maso who can accept be hungry only to feel that their country is a superpower and their politicians are influential. Well, honestly I feel kinda sorry for them. I mean, the amount of death, corrupt ....
Comment preview: It may not be little known but my favorite war ever is the Winter War. In 1939, Soviet Russia demanded harsh land concessions from Finland. When Finland refused, Russia invaded without warning. What then happened may have been one of the biggest military d ....
Comment preview: I kind of saw it like this. When the Soviet Union first collapsed, the new Russian government under Yeltsin was very eager to integrate Russia with the west. So he democratized the Russian government (1993 crisis notwithstanding), adopted a relative benign ....
Comment preview: Roses are red, Violets are blue. In Soviet Russia, Poem writes you ....
Comment preview: While Soviet Russia had a favourite colour from the start, in its early days it couldn't really decide on which nationalities should get their own SSRs (members of the Soviet Union in their own right) and which ones should only get an ASSR (autonomous repu ....
Comment preview: Lemme blow your mind for a second: the longstanding US foreign policy objective of maintaining cheap oil wasn't so much as for "our" economic benefit, but so as to screw over the USSR. Here's a quick and dirty summary of the history of oil and its world po ....
Comment preview: > Yeah yeah I know from the western point of view he was a "good guy" but he is hated there. Dude, you do know that if it weren't for him, you'd still live in an isolated, technologically backward authoritarian state? Not saying Russia today is perfect ....
Comment preview: Gather round yon fellows, for a tale of daring do. My school chums and myself took irrational dislike to the admin staff of our school, and believed that the flag flown at the front of the school was ill suited to their regime, and needed to change. We pro ....
Comment preview: Categorically false. Operation Barbarossa failed for a myriad of reasons, but Soviet preparation should not be counted among them. The Soviets did not believe the Germans would violate the non-aggression pact with such rapidity, and while I have no sources ....
Comment preview: This is only a small example but Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet filmmaker, once invited Paul Robeson to the Soviet Union. Paul Robeson, son of a former slave, was a black American singer/actor, famous for his roles in *Show Boat* and *Sanders of the River* as ....
Comment preview: The media in America provides very good cover for the misdeeds of the American police and most people haven't caught on that the police are here to oppress you, not help you. I'm not sure what happens when the majority of people catch on that their local ....
Comment preview: At the time, absolutely. There was definitely ethnocentrism in Soviet Russia amongst most ordinary Russians, but the U.S. was unquestionably far more racist -- this was the 1960s, people were being hosed in the streets and attacked with dogs for wanting to ....
Comment preview: >The US was at War with Soviet Russia, this was Communism versus Capitalism, the victor, obviously, was the best system. Then the Space Race begun, again the US versus our Arch-Nemesis the USSR. Our National pride was on the line, our status as the "Gre ....
Comment preview: This is an important question to answer because periodically on Reddit, TIL posts bring up the early Soviet regime decriminaltion homosexuality without either contextualizing or examining it. What follows is largely a discussion of the USSR, as I am not ce ....
Comment preview: The commonly held belief that Soviet Russia was some type of unstoppable juggernaut in WW2 and that the allies just sneaked in and stole all the credit at the end. What hurts me the most is how pervasive this is becoming. Could you claim Russia never got i ....
Comment preview: Firstly, I think you've heard wrong about Soviet Russia. Healthcare and education existed in theory but rarely trickled down to the poorest and most marginal people, of which there were many. The state-run economy did a generally awful job of supplying bot ....
Comment preview: I'm no fan of the Russian government, but these non-sympathetic voices (to Putin and such) make a good case that Russia is not an aggressor: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/20/a_new_cold_war_ukraine_violence >STEPHEN COHEN: I mean that. I mean that M ....
Comment preview: I had a class last semester on Soviet Russia, and my professor had grown up in the Soviet Union. He said that WWII is something that is still firmly in the mind of almost every Russian. EVERYBODY is directly related to someone who was in the war. It's not ....
Comment preview: Back in the 80s there was a standup comedian by the name of Yakov Smirnoff, who as his name might suggest was an immigrant from the Soviet Union. He's probably best known as the guy who created the "Russian reversal" joke ("In America X verbs Y but in Sov ....
Comment preview: > anti-jewish prejudices of the czarist russia As the Joke goes (Jews surely love their gallow's humour): > After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a government official in Ukraine menacingly addressed the local rabbi, "I suppose you ....
Comment preview: No gradients this time :) Context & more info about: The fall of Austria-Hungary gave birth to enormous number of independent semi-countries, such as lasting one month Republic of Zakopane (which president was a Nobel nominee) or Republic of Tarnobrzeg ....
Comment preview: Probably the only one doing this country, but [Go Latvian Potato Heritage!](http://i.imgur.com/f5kG6By.png) **My Country:** Latvia. **Brother:** Lithuania. Brothers, with love. Estonia was also an option, but I decided that Lithuania was always the more re ....
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