Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gontarev continued studying different educational systems and was often in demand in the USSR as a lecturer on education management and restructuring...
...could buy some time on the Soviet-made Mir space station, a relic of the once-flourishing program in the USSR. Unmanned probes appear to be the cheaper, better way to go for scientific data-collecting. In any case, we will always have plenty of time to absorb the budgetary blow. That is, until the sun explodes...
...called "dole" was actually military aid by the U.S. and USSR designed to rip the country apart in bloody civil war. But this is conveniently forgotten, as it is inconsistent with our picture of dependent Third Worlders...
...comes down to "Sanjay's Economic Theory: Tupperware is so important to us," he says, "not only because it appeases our anal retentive roommates, but also because it is representative of the American capitalistic spirit which ultimately led the United States through the Cold War while the USSR collapsed...
...subsequent dumping of contaminants near Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow, is now thought to have released pollution totaling 1.2 billion curies, a unit measure of contamination. That compares with about 3 million curies from the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Says Murray Feshbach, co-author of Ecocide in the USSR: "The new evidence of widespread nuclear pollution is so incredible, it's hard to believe...