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Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:09 PM

Soviet Union

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Name: Soviet Union

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Nazis Go on Trial in Nuremberg, Germany

Twelve Sentenced to Death© John KirshonGerman Chancellor Adolf Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler had committed suicide earlier to avoid being captured and put on trial for their crimes during World War II.On this day in history, November 20, 1945:Twenty-two ... [Suite101.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Nuremberg (Germany), Adolf Hitler, Hans Frank

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Manmohan Singh

Indian PM hopes U.S. to "stay involved in Afghanistan"

Increases the bookmarktwitterfacebookdiggGoogleWindowsliveDeliciousbuzzfriendfeedLinkedindiigoredditstumbleuponIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he hopes the United States and the global community 'will stay involved in Afghanistan', said a report ... [People's Daily Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, United States, Soviet Union, Manmohan Singh

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Sarah Palin

Stand Down Sarah Palin!

by Babu G. Ranganathan Sarah Palin accused President Obama of being a pal to terrorists. It doesn't seem like that to me. Recent events prove that President Obama is on the strong offensive against terrorists here and abroad. Sarah Palin took sides with ... [Pravda - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Sarah Palin, Russia, Georgia, Soviet Union

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Excused Horrors

Alan Kors, University of Pennsylvania history professor, gave the evening's keynote address. What he revealed about the dereliction and character weakness of academics, intellectuals, media elites and politicians is by no means complimentary, but worse ... [GOPUSA - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Joseph Stalin, Murder, Ronald Reagan, Soviet Union, Nazi

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and MelbourneWorld War Two: Lessons and Warnings

The following is the text of a lecture delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, to audiences in Sydney and Melbourne in November, ... [World Socialist Web Site - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Germany, Imperialism, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Nick Beams

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Letter to Brezhnev: do we know anything?

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall EU culture institutes in Kyiv, including the British Council, organise a "Good-Bye USSR!" film festival. The UK contribution is 1985's charming Letter to Brezhnev . Seen in a cool student kino in Kyiv, the film's ... [Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Soviet Union, Nigel Sheinwald, Yuri Gagarin, Moscow, British Council

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

The exploitation of the mentally ill by abuse shelters

(Carey Roberts) - In the former Soviet Union, dissidents who saw fit to challenge the prevailing socialist ideology were deemed to be certifiable nut cases. These men were packed off to the loony asylum for a regimen of forced re-education -- a bizarre ... [RenewAmerica columns - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Abuse, Soviet Union

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

India's Path Was Paved by Soviet Fall

With all the attention being paid this month to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ive found myself thinking of how much India has changed over the last 20 years. Most of the media coverage has, quite understandably, focused on Europe. But the tremors from ... [New York Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Soviet Union, India, Cold War, Jawaharlal Nehru, Foreign Policy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

A day of reckoning for the Marxists

Tags: Communist Party of India-Marxist, elections, Kerala and Tripura, West BengalAfter reading reports about the discussion that took place in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo following the Left’s defeat in October, close on the ... [Deccan Chronicle - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Kannur (Kerala, India), Berlin, Maoist, Soviet Union

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Divisive politics

Opinion - Letters Kudos to the author of ?Monster of divisive politics? (Business Line, November 17) for taking on the pusillanimous politics of the Thackeray clan! It is difficult not to be cynical when you see a person of Tendulkar?s stature being pilloried ... [Hindu Business Line - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Ajay Tyagi, Sachin (India), India, Soviet Union

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Leonard Zeskind: Moscow Murder Part of a Pattern

Moscow Murder Part of a Pattern by Leonard Zeskind The November 16 murder of Ivan Khutorskoy in Moscow underscores the growing threat of ultra-nationalist violence in the Russian Federation. Khutorskoy, a well-known anti-fascist activist ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Moscow, Murder, ultranationalist, Russia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party

Publication: China Brief Volume: 9 Issue: 23Category: China Brief, Elite, Foreign Policy, Domestic/Social, China and the Asia-Pacific, Home PageThe Chinese Communist PartyWhen Westerners examine the events of 20 years ago that led to the collapse of the ... [Jamestown Foundation - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Dictatorship

Quotes

But Haroon Babar, a senior police officer, said a bomb disposal squad sent to the site found no explosives. "It seems that a gas pipeline under the wall might have exploded causing the damage" he said. Pakistan helped nurture a generation of Islamic militants after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979...

Suicide bombers attack Pakistani-controlled Kashmir [CTV.ca - 4 hours ago]

...He estimates that 100,000 officers left the profession each year from 1991 to 2004 nationwide. "There are very few people anymore who work as police officers because it is their calling" Gurov says

Russia's Latest YouTube Craze: Exposing Police Corruption (Time.com) [Yahoo! News - 5 hours ago]

The year the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was on its way to dissolution, Gates was telling various congressional committees that a "long, competitive struggle with the Soviet Union still lies before us" and that the 'dictatorship of the Communist party remains untouched and untouchable...

On Bended Knee to Bob Gates [Middle East Online - 8 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Edward Jay Epstein: Annals of Unsolved Crime: T... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 4 hours ago] The endless tangle of questions about bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the assassination ...
Key Senate Health Care Reform Vote Today: Did R... [The Moderate Voice - 4 hours ago] Today the Senate is expected to hold a key health care reform vote. And if President Barack Obama has a bundle of political clout riding on this vote, so does ...
There can be no 'banning of sharia law' \| Banan... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 8 hours ago] Besides being unworkable, a 'ban' on sharia law would pose a serious challenge to all our civil libertiesI do not support the aims of the "One Law for All" campaign ...
The Pending Financial, Economic, Political and ... [The Market Oracle - 8 hours ago] The Dow is trying to make a comeback but the way I see it, much of the rise of “blue-chip” stocks is really more wishful thinking than serious thought. The stocks ...
Ukraine: Panic and politicking [H5N1 - 17 hours ago] Via the Washington Post: In Ukraine, much panic and politicking over H1N1 virus. Excerpt:As the pandemic H1N1 influenza surges with the onset of winter, the nations ...

Audio/Video

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Gorbachev: Ruins of Wall saw last nail in Cold ... [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/09/2009]
Two books about the revolutions of 1989. [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]
The lessons of 1989. [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]
The Lessons of 1989 [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]
Gorbachev on Obama, Berlin Wall [CNN International - YouTube - 11/09/2009]

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