Tag Archives : USSR

Amongst the indoor games still popular, cards are too closely associated with gambling so chess is perhaps the only indoor mind game that is played all over the world with international tournaments and championships held regularly that is followed closely by the lovers of the game. For outdoor sports where the athletes require to train their bodies [...]

According to revelations of Russian intelligence, Polish leaders ‘conspired’ during the 1930s with Nazi Germany against the vital interests of the Soviet Union, ‘instigating separatism’ in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia to promote the ‘disintegration’ of the USSR, and ‘opposed’ the formation of [...]

Ten years of current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in power have been aimed to strengthen the international role of Russia in the hope that the country recovers its status of great power that the USSR once had. On the other hand, human rights advocates worry that Russia launched a racist and belligerent nationalism. The message seems to have [...]

In Reagan’s March 8, 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, he refereed to the U.S.S.R as the ‘evil empire.’ He castigated the nuclear power ambitions of the Soviet Union. He also justified the NATO deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe as response to the Soviet deployment of its [...]

Palestine started as a Soviet concept used as tool in the former USSR hatred towards democracy. Israel just happened to have been the only democratic country in the Middle East during the time when the Soviets were launching their Marxist indoctrination campaign worldwide. With the help of the Soviet propaganda machinery, Palestinian Arabs were portrayed [...]

Cuba was once a rich place, attracting bohemians in the likes of Ernest Hemingway even. Its beaches were legendary. Its taste for the good life was almost proverbial. It was full of creativity and romance. 50 years after the revolution and the place is an anachronism where elegant structures of old mix with the dire reality of destitution. Gone are [...]