Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wholly attributable to the US, America should not be held responsible for all the excesses of the Shah since that time. The Shah was dominated by the United States in the 1950s and early '60s but even at this time he was adept at balancing America against Russia, hinting that he might at any time sign treaties with the Soviets. As a secret CIA National Intelligence Estimate phrased it in 1961: "a continuing problem for the U.S. will be how to give the Shah sufficient support to preserve his present pro-Western policy without encouraging excessive demands for aid." With...
...government is conservative. Do you think there is also a liberal tradition in Russia...
...until 1933, under the new Roosevelt Administration, that the U.S. recognized the Soviet government, and a brief honeymoon began. Then came Stalin 's psychopathic purges and show trials and the Hitler-Stalin pact that prepared the way for World War II. But when Hitler attacked Russia, Americans began to regard the Soviet Union as a gallant ally...
STALINGRAD. By the summer of 1942, the German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus...
...when Hitler was preparing to invade Russia, that the first buyer anted up $18.75 for the first $25 Series E bond. By last year 2.7 billion of them, $67.5 billion worth, had been sold to kids who brought in their pennies and workers who had money deducted from each paycheck. Sales held steady over the years, even though inflation made the bonds a bad investment. But the expense of processing them went up so much that it did not pay to issue them. "The cost is the same whether the bond is $25 or $100," says a Treasury official...