... a nuclear warhead. The Soviets developed these missiles far sooner than the USA and the fear was that these could be launched from Russian territory and land in the middle of Washington DC. The launch of Sputnik 1 destroyed the American belief that they could deliver a major blow without fear of a ... longer under foreign control. Most Cubans supported Castro. 75% of farmland was owned by foreigners as well as most Companies and 2 million acres of land, the oil refineries and electricity companies were also under USA control. Most Cuban professionals saw Castro as a menace. Thousands of d...

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... -year plans. To feed the ever-growing workforce with both people and food reform of the agricultural system was needed. Despite the fertile land exploitation in the Ukraine, which fed the Soviet Union, there were still regular famines and the peasants who worked on the farms bore ... peasants would be needed as workers and collectivisation was to secure these workers, and the peasant produce for the workers. By forcing peasant land owners into collective farms the Soviet Union provided an agricultural backbone to feed its industrialisation whilst preventing famine from ever reoccurring i...

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... Germany. These three countries decided that they would come together to form one country out of their three divided parts. Those three divided parts formed West Germany. After all the land was divided the Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Just like the Soviet Union, the economy in East Germany was struggling to get back on its feet after the war. While ... was a trench to stop vehicles. After that was a patrol track with a corridor for watchdogs, watch towers, and bunkers. Behind all of that was a second wall. This area of no man's land cut off one hundred-ninety two streets. Checkp...

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... . Even if the European Union were to completely unite and become the United States of Europe (USE- an interesting acronym), the current state of the Euro might prove such a union a bad idea. Even in the days of a bipolar world, it was only America and Russia at the forefront; all the countries in the world either sided with a super power, or chose ... of authority that supercedes the power of the state. Theoretically, anyway. Another aspect of the world today is the way previously colonial countries are willing to settle for their own land. After the French were beaten out of Vietnam, ot...

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... necessity considering all the problems Stalin faced, although historians today argue that ideology was also a very strong reason. Indeed, the Collectivisation of the Russian farms implied the redistribution of the land to create large and more economically viable farms, which did follow perfectly the Communist ideology. However, another evidence of his ideology coming out was the "dekulakisation". One of his objectives ... of human lives as 13 million were either killed, deported into labour camps or new factories. Around 3 million people died due to the famine conditions of 1932-1933 b...

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... sufficiently. A policy of systemization was also proposed . In this policy rural population had to move to larger urban centres. Ceausescu promoted industrial labor and took away some farmers from their land to the city. This plan did not work and so it was abolished. The country worked on the Black Sea Canal for more than 25 years to reconstruct it, from ... they showed. There was no freedom of expression, people were put in jail because they said that there wasn't enough food or that the food that they were eating was bad and could damage their health . Also the artist at the time had...

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... the time the majority of factory workers were still young and impressionable, still intoxicated by the communist theory. Many were willing to suffer a "few years of hardship for the promised land of a better society."1 Posters, signs, books and radio programmes extolled the virtues of hard work and rapid industrialization so that workers were bombarded with Stalin's thoughts and ideas and beliefs ... that make them human, like their opinions and feelings, was what made Stalin a monster. There is no doubt that he did well for the country and in other aspects, did bad, but he cannot be la...

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