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Cold War ended two decades ago with the Soviet Union going broke, spent into submission by an arms race neither Moscow nor Washington could afford. Now it is our turn. The United States kept spending on a centerpiece of those international tensions: a... Full Article at The Seattle Times
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Melamed, who adds a note of skepticism: “This is a little crazy.” Melamed has a long history in the Black Sea region, starting with fleeing the Nazis with his parents across the Soviet Union in 1939. Fifty years later, in 1990, he got a call from... Full Article at BusinessWeek
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Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (L) ties a red scarf around a boy's neck, symbolizing their initiation to the Young Pioneer youth communist group created in the Soviet Union for children 10-14 years old, in Moscow's Red square on May 20,... View Photo »
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The ever more extensive breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, correlated with - and more than correlated with - the development of NATO as an expansionist, aggressive and bellicose regional and global military force
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But Carpenter deflected attention from his own exploits by talking about the bigger picture of America's past and future space endeavors. "I was at that time — throughout those early '60s — aware of the fact that we were driven by the competition we... Full Article at Space.com
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Soviet space programs beside the American flag they planted on the moon's surface in commemoration of the astronauts who had laid the groundwork for the Apollo mission but never made it to the moon. "We recognized that we wouldn't have been there if it... Full Article at The Huffington Post
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These gains are currently taxed at 15 percent. Schumer wants the rate raised to 30 percent. Further, he wants to ban such persons from ever re-entering the U.S. Whatever happened to the human rights that the U.S. swore by in the 1970s? The Soviet Union... Full Article at Cato Institute
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The US Marine Corps is not only building bilateral and multilateral ties with nineteen countries in the Balkans, the Black Sea region and the Caucasus and other parts of the former Soviet Union, it is also consolidating NATO's expansion into those areas with the ultimate aim of full Alliance membership ...
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Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program between Iran and six major powers -- the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany (the P5+1) -- began Wednesday in Baghdad against a backdrop of converging and intersecting factors. ... Full Article at The Huffington Post: Canada Edition
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Armstrong eventually took over and landed manually. He said he didn't bother thinking of his famous words until after they landed because he wasn't sure they'd make it down to the moon in the first place. It was the competition with the Soviet Union,... Full Article at Deseret News
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR) (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, CCCP (help·info)); tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It often was incorrectly... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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