For centuries China was a victim of expansions and geopolitical aggression. ... NATO and European Union accept new members from the communist bloc and develop their internal policy towards Russia. ... It has nothing in common with aggression, contradictions or interventions. ... If immigration policy of Russia towards Siberia wouldn't be changed, 10 millions of Chinese people will migrate till the middle of the 21 century. ... In this respect Chinese geopolitics is against any forms of hegemony, aggression and violent acquisition of territories and resources. ...

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Some would put the blame entirely on the Soviet Union and argue that the Cold War was the result of its aggression - that is the Orthodox theory. Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... This occupation was in many ways responsible for much of the Soviet paranoia towards the West. ... He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. ... However, the ...

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The allies felt threatened by the "iron curtain that seemed to have descended upon the continent" and the tensions between the West and Russia was escalated because of Stalin's aggressions and his supposed aims of isolating the west. ... This resulted in the death of 26 million Russians and they felt mistrust and anger towards the West. ...

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One such alliance was the treaty of Rapallo with Germany "the German Bourgeois government has an implacable hatred of the Bolsheviks, but such is its international position that against its own desires the government is driven towards peace with Soviet Russia" (Lenin). ... The Communists even supported the Nazi's in a campaign against the Prussian Social Democratic government saying, "the establishment of open fascist dictatorship.speeds up the process..towards the proletarian revolution.... In 1939 Stalin choose unwillingly to side with Germany in the Nazi- Soviet non-aggr...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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Of all the western imperial powers, the USA acted most favourably towards China in the first half of the 20th century. ... The USSR sheltered China under a "nuclear umbrella" from possible American aggression and was the only conceivable source of development aid as it offered the only model of communist development. ...

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The basic aim of this alliance was to protect European states from the possible aggression by USSR, which after the Second War looked determined to expand her frontiers. ... Article 2: The patties will contribute towards the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded and by promoting conditions of stability and well being. ...

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Response In order to assess how Stalin attained and upheld complete power in the 1930's it is necessary to examine the factors which led his drive towards totalitarianism and also the steps that allowed him to assume this position. ...

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This brought to light the Soviet policy governing the Warsaw Pact, the Brezhnev Doctrine, that stated "When forces that are hostile to socialism and try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries". ... The aggression between those two parts of the world never shaped in an armed conflict, but was conducted by or against surrogates and through spies and traitors, which were working undercover. ...

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Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. For many centuries, one communal goal found amongst disparate individuals, colonies, and nations was the desire to obtain the greatest magnitude of power. The collective mindset found concerning domina...

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Balancing military power along with a willingness to use that power, challenging communist aggression wherever it raised its head had been the dominate theme since the Truman Administration. ... Essentially, it caused doubts regarding the usefulness of the chosen means towards containment: not only was success unrealized, but the war had become grossly expensive relative to American lives and its resources (435). ... Although a lull in the tensions between the two was welcome, the shift towards parity between the two nations was difficult for a country with a historically absolutist and morali...

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