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    The Soviet offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to...
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    Stalinism German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty Soviet offensive plans controversy Nekrich, Ulam & Freeze 1997, p. 201 "Soviet Foreign Minister...
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  • Russian Review. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Operation Barbarossa Soviet offensive plans controversy Stalin's speech on August 19, 1939 Meltyukhov 2000:491 Meltyukhov...
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    between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that...
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    troops in Finland to begin offensive warfare. By September 1941, Finland had regained its post–Winter War concessions to the Soviet Union in Karelia. The Finnish...
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    for American and British recognition of certain Soviet territorial claims in Asia. The Soviet offensive was to start within three months after the end...
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    to negotiate peace. After the Soviet military reorganized and adopted different tactics, they renewed their offensive in February 1940 and overcame the...
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    Eastern Bloc (redirect from Soviet-bloc)
    Soviet Bloc, was the coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union...
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    Operation Unthinkable (category Military plans)
    Days to the River Rhine Soviet offensive plans controversy Division-Equivalents for the Soviets Division-Equivalents for the Soviets Including 3,480 US, 2...
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    Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. He filed for divorce in 1959; Soviet law required the divorce decree be printed in the newspaper along with their...
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    strategic offensives in Europe conducted by the Red Army in 1944 during World War II. The Soviet offensives drove the Axis forces from Soviet territory...
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    Before their marriage on April 12, 1970, Alliluyeva had defected from the Soviet Union, renounced her father's tyrannical rule and come to the United States...
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    25 June 2010 with plans to place it in the museum. On 20 December 2012, the municipal assembly of Gori voted to put an end to plans to change the museum's...
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    theory, Slavists case 1937 Soviet Census 1941 Red Army purge Soviet offensive plans controversy Hitler Youth Conspiracy Soviet war crimes Allegations of...
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    looting. Later Soviet sources claimed that the extra watch was actually an Adrianov compass and that Khaldei, in order to avoid controversy, doctored the...
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    General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. Joseph Stalin began his political...
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  • Artyom Sergeyev (category Soviet prisoners of war)
    was the adopted son of Joseph Stalin. He became a major general in the Soviet military. Sergeyev's biological father, Fyodor Sergeyev, a close friend...
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    Nadezhda Alliluyeva (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
    he was rarely at home. By 1921 the Civil War had ended, and in 1922 the Soviet Union was established, Lenin taking the leading role. Not wanting to be...
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    Battle of Moscow, all German plans for a quick defeat of the Soviet Union had to be revised. The Soviet counter-offensives in December 1941 caused heavy...
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  • Russian military deception Siege of Leningrad Slavistics Soviet offensive plans controversy "Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved February 18...
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    Viktor Suvorov (category Soviet intelligence personnel who defected to the United Kingdom)
    Causes of World War II List of Eastern Bloc defectors Soviet offensive plans controversy Soviet–German relations before 1941 Lurie, V. M. (2002). GRU:...
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    the Soviet Union with the largest invasion force in history, leading to some of the largest battles and most horrific atrocities. This offensive comprised...
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    theory, Slavists case 1937 Soviet Census 1941 Red Army purge Soviet offensive plans controversy Hitler Youth Conspiracy Soviet war crimes Allegations of...
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  • Stalinist period. Neo-Stalinism overlaps significantly with neo-Sovietism and Soviet nostalgia. Various definitions of the term have been given over the...
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    Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against...
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    Special settlements in the Soviet Union were the result of population transfers and were performed in a series of operations organized according to social...
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    at which the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union were all present. For the historical context see Diplomatic history...
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    Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin (category 1953 in the Soviet Union)
    Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state...
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    Svetlana Alliluyeva (category Soviet emigrants to the United States)
    Lana Peters,[citation needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she...
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