Richard Wurmbrand Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who founded Voice of the Martyrs in 1967, was born on March 24, 1909 in Bucharest, Romania. While he was still young his parents both died. He grew up a bitter orphan, and at the age of 14 he was a convinced and ... they were on vacation, Richard and Sabina were converted and became believers in the Christian faith. Because Richard and Sabina were in charge of a Protestant church in Romania they were arrested several times by the Nazis. Although they were beaten and abused many times while captive to the Nazis, Wurmbrand said that the Nazi terror .....

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... side are the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its Communists allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc, which by the mid 1950's included East Germany, Albania, Hungary, Poland Romania, China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Bulgaria. On the other side is the United States along with its democratic allies, including Canada, France, West Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Great Britain, and many ... ...

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... in post-war Europe to strengthen Russian influence, was perceived to be a threat to the Americans. Stalin was highly effective in his goal to gain territory, with victories in Poland, Romania, and Finland. To the western world, this success looked as if it were the beginning of serious Russian aggressions. The western view of the time saw Stalin as doing one ... ...

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... and Slovaks took the streets and demanded political reforms in the Czechoslovakia and succeeded their task when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia peacefully transferred their power to the reformers. In Romania, the communist Party of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and by the force of arms in December 1989. The fall of the communist parties in Bulgaria and Albania ... ...

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... defence and police are managed by the government, making America into a Mixed Economic System, which we will discuss later. PLANNED ECONOMIC SYSTEM In the Soviet Era, countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania and Russia tried to lay down plans for what was to be produced, how it was to be produced and for whom it would be for. All these countries were ... ...

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... World War II, fear over the spread of Communism brought forth changes in foreign policy. The Soviet Union had control of much of Eastern Europe including Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland. In order to protect themselves from future attacks, Stalin installed friendly Communist governments in those nations. The United States wanted those nations to determine their own type of ... ...

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