The Soviet tanks shot into the crowds of people killing many, and injuring many others, they even shot into the crowds in West Germany that were rioting. ... Occasionally someone would try to get through to the west, and would either be shot, arrested, or sometimes make the escape to freedom. In all around 5000 people made it to the west, around 3200 were arrested trying, around 160 were shot in killed trying, and around 120 were shot and injured by trying to make that escape to freedom. ... In the mid 1980's there was a beginning of change in the relationship of East and West Germany. ...

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Before President Kennedy came into office, a U-2 plane was shot down in the Soviet Union while spying on the Soviet Union, thus cutting all Diplomatic ties between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... Malcolm was killed by a pair of point blank range shots to the chest. ... As the motorcade approached an underpass, two shots were fired in rapid succession. ... Ninety minutes after Kennedy was fatally shot, Vice president Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One. ... "On November 24, a Dallas Man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald before there was a chance to put him on trial."...

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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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A bogy of the Cold War revival or its complete comeback is commonly a matter of a public discourse, triggering many different experts to take part in this issue. Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? Or maybe the political reality, nowadays, ha...

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