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10.05.2008 - Great Patriotic War - the main front of World War II
Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration, a strategic offensive in Belarus with more than 2.3 million officers and men against a 800,000-strong German force. Total Soviet losses in this operation were 765,000 officers and men, including 178,000 dead. Total German losses were more than 400,000, including about 300,000 dead.
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26.04.2008 - Chernobyl victims remembered on 22nd anniversary
For the anniversary, former residents of the 30-km restricted zone surrounding the plant have been allowed to re-visit the area, where abandoned ghost towns lie almost untouched since Soviet times.
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05.03.2008 - Nuclear missile train at its final destination
In February 1983, a rail-based missile system entered trial service in the Soviet Union. Equipped with the RT-23 solid-fuel missile, the trains were able to stealthily travel more than 1,000 km (622 miles) a day, and launch missiles from any stop en route.
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05.03.2008 - Fifty-five years on, Stalin remains iconic figure
Exactly 55 years ago Joseph Stalin, the dictator who dragged the Soviet Union to superpower status, passed away in mysterious circumstances at his dacha just outside Moscow.
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15.02.2008 - Lenin's embalmed corpse good for another century
The embalmed corpse of ex-Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin could remain on view in his tomb on Red Square for another 100 years, if no decision to remove it is taken,
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04.01.2008 - Triple jeopardy: the Nazi plan to kill WWII leaders in Tehran
Kuznetsov, a famed Soviet spy, got an SS man named Ulrich von Ortel to spill the secret over a bottle of good brandy. Von Ortel not only told his "friend" Paul about the operation, but invited him to accompany him on a trip to Tehran to buy cheap Persian rugs.
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27.12.2007 - Retired general says Soviet incursion of Afghanistan justified
"The deployment of Soviet troops was an effective response to our request to the Soviet leadership due to the growing manifestation of terrorism and external threats to Afghanistan," said Maj. Gen. Hamid (Ret.), a former member of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
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07.11.2007 - Russian Revolution: 90 Years On
Many remember the times when labour feats were devoted to another anniversary, and all remember celebrations and marches and bands playing in the streets on the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
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17.10.2007 - Tehran-43: Wrecking the plan to kill Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
The historic significance of the Big Three conference in Tehran, Iran, was enormous - at stake were the destinies of millions of people and the future of the world. The deadline for the opening of the second front was the main issue on the agenda.
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26.09.2007 - FSB director hands over documents re Wallenberg to chief rabbi
Nikolai Patrushev, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, on Wednesday handed over to Berl Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia, copies of documents from the central archives of the Russian FSB regarding the destiny of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
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