... - over 27 million people. Despite the fact that the war seriously affected the socio-economic situation of the country, it also gave a powerful impetus to the economic development of the eastern part, which has been difficult in peacetime. Restoration work began to be carried out as the liberation of the occupied territories. The rapid rise of the national economy contributed monolithic ... unbearable burden on the military. Fearing a possible destabilization of the Soviet Union did not go to a sharp decline in the armed forces, and used them to strengthen their domination in Eastern Euro...

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... that in his last years his ability to speak Russian deteriorated and he spoke only Georgian. The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. His ... . It was Georgia's principle center of higher learning and drew manny upper-class students from all across the region. This set the scene for much conflict between the strict Russian Orthodox priests who ran the...

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... by controlling their lives. Anti-communist feelings rose up in America as the American government justified the Cold War by saying it was eliminating communism. Schlesinger, Jr. states that, the orthodox American view, as originally set forth by the American government and as reaffirmed until recently by most American scholars, has been that the Cold War was the brave and essential ... . Containment was another American policy, specifically aimed at making sure that communism stopped spreading. American Diplomat, George Kennan, first spoke it of in 1947. Ostpolitik was, the West German g...

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... government to democratic rule without being over concerned with dense political ideology. Due to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the communist system, which had dominated Central and Eastern Europe for over forty years came to an end. There are many complex factors that aided the collapse of communism and the fight for democracy, some being: The enormous influence ... which led up to a smooth transition, whereas Romania's moderate violence technique seems questionable considering the turmoil throughout the transition. In terms of initial criterion, the first country to abolish ...

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