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...Soviet Union had not forced Czechoslovakia, which was the only democracy east of Switzerland before the Nazi invasion, into the Soviet orbit in 1948, the USSR would probably exist to this day. The Czechs, famous for their strong democratic traditions and cynical attitude towards authority, were the Trojan Horse of the Soviet empire...
Nunn said the USSR was the first country or empire to collapse with a large stockpile of weapons. According to Nunn, the danger that these weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists is great...
This year it is Ilya Ehrenburg's turn in the spotlight. Ehrenburg, probably unknown to most Americans only 30 years after his death, was one of the most famous Soviet writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, serving as the USSR's main cultural emissary to the West under Stalin and Khrushchev. While he wrote dozens of novels and books of verse, he became best known as a correspondent for Izvestia and other Soviet newspapers during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when his fiercely anti-Fascist sentiments made him a favorite of Red Army soldiers...
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...