... , transport, communications, and trade, and it also includes turnover (sales) taxes. No values are attached to such "unproductive" economic activities as public administration defense, and moist private and professional services. Hungary's NMP in 1975 stood at 395.9 billion forints. The GNP as calculated by the World Bank was about 26$ billion, or 2,470$ per person. If the NMP ... Exports included heavy machinery, ships, locomotives and transportation equipment, chemicals, textiles, oil and oil products, ores, and foodstuffs. Hungary's main imports were heavy machinery, agricultural imple...

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... building had 2 percent. Wine making controls the food industry of Azerbaijan, taking up about 50 percent. A city in Azerbaijan just north of Baku, Sumgait, is the nations core for steel, iron, and other metal related industries. Soviet-era Azerbaijan Oil Machinery Company controls all of the countries oil tools for industry. ECONOMY: The main part of Baku's economy is petroleum, it ... places in the production of oil industry equipment. The vast economy of Azerbaijan is founded on the use of many mineral resources. Along with oil and gas, a great amount of iron ore, zinc ore, rock salt,...

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... that would come from the bourgeoisie and be composed mainly of middle class intellectuals. Digging farther he describes the party as being a small, highly centralized, highly disciplined, conspiratorial band of professional revolutionaries. The usage of violence would be at the core of dissolving the old social order and creating a new one. Lenin identified the enemies of the working class as being ... that these groups were not harmful to the government but rather worked with them. The next section is an examination of these ideologies put into practice. Lenin ruled with an iron fist e...

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... output was massive during the Five Year Plans such as coal, increasing from 35 million to 145 million tonnes, Oil, increasing from 12 million to 40 million tonnes and Pig Iron, Increasing from 6 million tonnes to 32 million tonnes (Mills, 1986. p109)(see Appendix A). Thus the Five Year Plans Stalin introduced to modernise Russia, created the industry possible to create mass ... Plans. In twenty years this hitherto relatively backward nation had produced the tanks, guns, aeroplanes and support structures that made it possible for their leaders to outfight and outgeneral the professional ...

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... East.6 In 1961, with the Berlin Wall, this separation became more visible than ever. It did not only make the two states visible but also the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, which separated Europe. This wall became the most symbolic statue for the Cold War. Nowhere else did the Cold War have a bigger impact on families and friends, who were ... and decide to take the freedom of the population of the Eastern side of Berlin and build a wall around them. The German capital became the scale model of Europe. The iron curtain around Eastern Europe also separated states with strong relations, a...

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... Union, what [sic] cannot be said of Great Britain or the United States."5 From this point, the Cold War truly becomes a chain reaction. In March of 1946, Churchill presented his 'Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton, Missouri, in response to the spread of communism in eastern Europe. He called for a western alliance to combat the threat. Stalin's response was hostile: rather than ... Foreign Minister were not. Finally, the fact that the communists took power in Czechoslovakia by means of an armed coup sent waves of fear through the western world, causing the 'iron curtain' to fall even furthe...

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... rebellious population too many freedoms in his reforms, to make Soviet Union more democratic country. Those reforms were used against Gorbachev in the revolutions of 1989. The countries behind the iron curtain wanted freedom. They were cognizant of the fact that Gorbachev is a weak ruler and that his reforms were making the Soviet Union less puissant. Gorbachev was also not a very ... Union democratic, granting lots of new freedoms to the public and his inability to speak to his public the people became intrepid of him. Policies allowed the countries behind the Iron Curtain to interact ...

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... created a negative domino effect for the rest of the economy. An example of this domino effect was Russia failing to capitalize on its immense amounts of natural resources, such as iron ore and precious gems in the Ural region or coal in Ukraine. The lack of industrial development explained in the paragraph above proved to be the reason why the Russian ... , the oppression of social development can be attributed to a plethora of faults - such as the displeasement of an autocratic society with emphasis on absolute power upon the Tsar, or the iron-tight hierarchical system which effectivel...

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... Seas. The annual catch is estimated 400,000 fish, which is mostly Herring. Germany has several minerals. They are the world leaders in producing lignite. They also have coal, petroleum, iron ore, potash, salt, and natural gas. Coal is a major source of energy in Germany. They also use petroleum. In the south, they have hydroelectricity. Although mining isn't really important to ... they have many minerals. Those are the many minerals that are found in Germany. The manufacturing in Germany is mostly processed food, machinery, chemicals, electronics, and transportation equipment. Steel an...

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... first atom bomb from which completely caught the Americans by surprise. The USA thought that Russia was 20 years behind in technology. In 1948 Churchill made his Iron Curtain speech, in which he said, "an Iron Curtain has descended. Behind that line lie all the states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Communist parties have been raised to power far beyond their ... ...

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... be such an historical and eventful year. "In December 1989 Gorbachev met US President George Bush and they declared that the Cold War was over-14. The fall of the Iron Curtain had reunited Germany and with the fall of communism, Europe was once again reunited. But it would prove to take a lot of time before the countries of the East ... of the Cold War saw the end of the antagonism between the Soviet Union and the USA, it saw the end of the division of Europe, the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of ideological conflict and political systems in Europe were re-defined. Germany became a ...

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... . The secret police imprisoned anyone who opposed Communist rule, or might oppose it at a later date.. Churchill described the border between the Soviet-controlled countries and the West as an iron curtain. The partition and division of Germany drove a block in between both United States to USSR relations and West German to East German relations. It was clear that the wartime ... the domino effect and escalade into war. Truman wanted to show that he was serious about his policy of containment. He wanted Berlin to be a symbol of freedom behind the Iron curtain. In response to this, the Al...

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... and had contrasting beliefs so conflict between the two was inevitable. The Americans became aware of the Soviet actions through two sources. In March 1946 Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech, warning the USSR had control of the Eastern Europe countries and also Kennan's Long Telegram was sent from Moscow in February 1946. This warned of the Soviet's need ... rebels or anyone thought to be involved. This was frowned heavily upon in the USA because they thought that Hungary should be given the right to immerge from behind the Iron Curtain. Disagreements sprang up betwee...

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... bloc as an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. In 1946, Churchill described how Russia and the west were separated by an "Iron Curtain". This meant that anything to the east was highly secretive and that a great division did lie between them. It showed that the communist Russia, the worlds only other proper ... the two would probably involve the use of the immensely destructive atom bomb and the world was at the mercy of these two great countries. America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." (Isaacs & Downing, Tran...

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... ideas, tactics and policies allowed him to split the party on the issue of membership. His vision was that the party should be exclusive, comprised only of a small amount of professional revolutionaries. Lenin's faction became known as the Bolsheviks and those who opposed, the Mensheviks, believed the part should be a mass organisation, which all workers could join. "There is evidence that ... 's camp did so not because they preferred his way of the party statute but because they wanted to declare themselves for Lenin's nerve."(1) Lenin's Bolshevik party attracted the support from profes...

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... . Secondly, it resulted in Germany dividing into occupation zones by the allied power; also, Berlin also divided among the allies (Hatton and Williamson, 2005). It also resulted in drawing of "iron curtain," which divided Europe into Western and Eastern spheres, this ensured the expansion of USSR by the installation of pro-Soviet governments in countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. It ... ...

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... Lenin. The body is in excellent condition and comes with a refrigerated coffin that works on both American and European current. The Buy It Now button indicated a price of five dollars flat." This is probably my favorite part of the story because I thought it was really funny how he just casually finds Lenin`s body on the internet for auction. Even funnier ... ...

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... gain more power to dominate the entire world. First, they convinced Eastern European countries to switch to communism. Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was in charge of Eastern ... ...

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... contain noodles as well but it is mostly just meat and vegetables. Oddly enough Turkmenistan is actually known for their melons. They eat their melons mostly with naan a type of flat bread. Countries surrounding Turkmenistan in hard time use their melons as a source of food. Turkmenistan actually has a public holiday called melon day. Turkmenistan is said to have the most public ... ...

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... because it augmented the supply of laborers in Russia while also creating rapid urbanization. In A History of the Modern, R.R. Palmer wrote, "In the USSR from 1928 to 1938, production of iron and steel expanded four times and that of coal expanded three and half times "2. These statistics further show that Stalin's Five Year Plans allowed for the USSR to blossom into ... ...

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... could be fed despite the German occupation of 47% of Soviet pre-war crop area. Their success is evidenced in the occupying German forces retaining collectivized farms under German occupation . Iron production in 1946 was at 50% of its 1936 levels yet there was a 400% increase in tank production from 1941-44. This "economic miracle" was down to Russia's creation of ... ...

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... the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great leader. He led America through difficult times with an iron fist and a diplomatic spirit. Looking over Eisenhower's career, he was one of the greatest Presidents America ever had. Without Eisenhower, the United States probably would have become embroiled in another ... ...

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... influence. Russia today has organized mobs that commit crimes and are protected by the government from investigation from outside countries. Today this protection has become what is known as the "Iron Curtain-. By early 1994 crime was second only to the national economy and still is. During that time 70- 80% of private enterprises and banks were paying fees to syndicate ... ...

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... (162) explains: " Fidel is a calculating man that believes in terror as a means of government. Personality, I think that his strong personality helped him achieve what many say: "He ruled with an iron fist." Since Castro embraced communism and formed closeness with the Soviet Union, he became a familiar figure for not just Cuba, but for millions around the world. The Cuban revolution acted ... ...

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... the improvement of railroad lines (Stalin Man 1662). By the end of the Second Five Year Plan, the Soviet Union was arising as a strong industrial country. It increased production of iron, steel, coal, and electric power. It had a whole new area of new industries, including aviation, tractor, locomotive, chemical, aluminum, nickel, and tin (Stalin Triumph 158). The Soviet Union now had ... ...

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