Flag of the Soviet Union

conflict between Finland, located in Scandinavia, and the Soviet Union, located east of Finland, during the time of World War II. In the course of three months, the war ended with a Finnish surrender and a damaged Soviet reputation. The official count of losses for both sides was at 70,000 total casualties for the Finnish and 323,000 total casualties for the Soviets, even though the Finnish army possessed a quarter of the military might of the Soviet Army, also known as the Red Army. A relatively overlooked

Zinovyev is that his field of study, Sociology, was banned since the 1920s. Surprisingly, Zinovyev was approved by the Soviet Union for one single study. In his unpublished study, he hypothesized the theorem of “Homo Sovieticus,” otherwise known as the “Soviet man.” The “Soviet Man” was a result of the revolution and the accompanying terrors. The study’s theory gave that the “Soviet Man”

start of the new decade, 1990 marked many historical world events, in particular the fall of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Special Period in Cuba. At the beginning of this decade, Cuba declared a “Special Period in Time of Peace” in order to deal with the national emergency. This Special Period began in 1990 and ended in 1995. This period was caused by the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, which was Cuban’s main supplier and supporter.

National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day reading: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all." Millions of children took part in reciting the pledge for the first time that Columbus Day Ceremony of 1982 according to the Youth’s Companion. During the National Flag Conference, in 1923, the words “my Flag” are changed to “the Flag” to help prevent confusion with immigrants. In 1954, Congress added the words, “under

control over West Germany and the Soviet Union saw this as a threat. The Soviet Union was under Stalin’s’ rule and responded with the Warsaw Pact. Stalin wanted the world to become Communism, so he started this communist block which included Hungary, Poland, and Germany. The Warsaw pact was signed and this officially ended World War 2. Considering the Allies were the winners they got to split up Germany. NATO took control over West Berlin and communist Soviet Union took over East Berlin. Communist

On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space called, “Sputnik”. It was the start of one of the biggest races in the world called “The Space Race”. But it isn’t the start of the race that is questionable but the very end. On July 19, 1969 the United States supposedly landed 3 men on the moon. More than a billion people around the globe watched this event occur on their television sets as Neil Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind

In 1953, the peak of the Cold War and Communist Red Scare, Byron Haskin released the allegorical film, The War of the Worlds; a commentary on the anxiety that was ever present due to the Soviet Union, Communism, and the threat of nuclear war. The film is loosely based on H.G. Well's novel of the same name, and stars Gene Barry. The War of the Worlds establishes commentary on the technology and religious beliefs birthed of the 50's, and the struggle that was created due to the Cold War in the

other nations, he wished to build an agreement behind the backs of Vietnam. This attempt was called the “many flags” program. In 1969 over 47,800 korean soldiers were involved

friend, I regret to inform you that our beloved Soviet society has ceased to exist. Our solid red flag with its magnificent gold emblem of the hammer and sickle flew above the Kremlin for the very last time on Christmas day, 1991. Prior to this gloomy day, eleven of the fifteenth Soviet republics that once made up the strong and prosperous Soviet Union, met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, to announce that they would no longer partake in the Soviet Union, and had created a Commonwealth of independent states

of symbols in the film are great from the U.S flag to the peasant thieves themselves as it is warning of western/capitalist ideology. Although this film is about a gullible American it does not go into foreign relations between the nations and does not portray the United States as “evil”. This film probably went through censorship and was a propaganda tool for the masses, but it only targets a specific group, the proletariat, within the Soviet Union and rejects another group, the peasants. The greatest