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Why did the USSR open itself to tourism in 1960s/1970?
Someone told me that they went to Georgia in 1971, and that the locals were all intrigued by this person's clothing etc, as the USSR had opened only a year ago to western tourists. IS this true?
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Who were Dzerzhinsky's Latvian defenestrators?
Allegedly, somewhen in the early 1950s, Stalin reprimanded the Minister of State Security Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev (Семён Денисович Игнатьев) as follows:
Ты что, белоручкой хочешь быть? Не выйдет. ...
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Where can I find information about the commune between Sochi and Khosta that was closed in 1929?
In The Gulag Archipelago (by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translation by Thomas P. Whitney) one can find the following lines:
Non-Orthodox sects were also under constant attack, even those sympathetic to ...
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Could Leningrad have been so called in 1921?
I happened upon an old globe in a local antique store and thought for fun that I would apply the XKCD Map Age Guide to it. It ended up with the range 1924-1929 on the basis that it shows Leningrad in ...
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In the USSR, what determined the level of national administrative divisions?
The Soviet Union's first population census in 1926 identified 176 distinct nationalities, many of which were assigned a titular administrative-territorial division within the country. These divisions ...
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Did loss of the Soviet support play a role in PLO decision to negotiate with Israel?
Democratization in Eastern Europe in late 1980s was largely enabled by Gorbachev withdrawing Soviet support for the Communist regimes (in some cases this literally involved withdrawing Soviet troops, ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices?
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices? [duplicate]
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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To what extent did espionage contribute to the Soviet Union victory in WW2 and inception of the cold war?
I was looking into a team of American scientists who were allegedly executed for passing key nuclear weapons technology secrets to the Soviets which led me to another German nuclear physicist and spy ...
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What was the nature of the offered "negotiations about East Prussia" in 1990?
According to an article in Der Spiegel from 2010, during the negotiations for the Two Plus Four Agreement about German unity in 1990, the negotiator for the Soviet Union, Geli Batenin, offered ...
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Was there any option for India to annex East Bengal in 1971? [duplicate]
On August 9, 1971, in New Delhi, the foreign ministers of India, Swaran Singh, and Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation between India and the ...
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What was Jimmy Carter looking for Soviet Union to do as a prerequisite to restore normal trade relations?
Question: What human rights was Jimmy Carter looking for that Dobrynin would have to cite the Soviet Union did to gain restoration of normal trade relations with the Soviet Union?
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What were the Soviet Unions' method of intelligence for verifying that Jupiter Missiles were actually in Turkey?
Did the Soviet Union fly over Turkey with any of these or if they had spies who could take photos of the missiles in Turkey, why couldn't such spies disable such missiles to make a first strike via ...
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What were the causes of Cuba's convergences and divergences with the Soviet Union on foreign policies?
" In some instances, the level of
Soviet-Cuban agreement has been striking: as examples, the
agreement to permit Soviet intermediate ballistic missiles on Cuban
soil in 1962; the qualified Cuban ...
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Did the Soviet Union quarantine shipment of Jupiter and Thor missiles to Italy and Turkey?
If not a quarantine, did Soviet Union publicly condemn the placement by Eisenhower before the Bay of Pigs Invasion or before the Cuban Missile Crisis?
If there was no quarantine, was it because ...
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