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Viewpoints: Pakistan at a turning point as U.S. exits Afghanistan
April 22, 2012

Obituary: UCD professor Zinner was Cold War expert
April 08, 2012

Hall adds Miller, others to its ranks
April 03, 2012

Santorum plays the Jelly Belly card in a California fundraising trip
March 30, 2012

Santorum plays the Jelly Belly card in California fundraising trip
March 29, 2012

David Brooks: Fertility implosion challenges the myth of endless growth
March 14, 2012

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Soviet Union Videos

Neurologist: Syphilis Likely Didn't Kill Lenin
May 05, 2012 | Associated Press

Mikhail Gorbachev visits the valley
April 29, 2012 | KSAZ FOX 10 Phoenix, AZ

Former Soviet KGB Spy Chief Commits Suicide
March 30, 2012 | IBTimes.com

Soviet Union Wikipedia Information

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), also called the Soviet UnionUnion. Britannica (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з; tr.: Sovetskiy Soyuz), was a constitutionally socialist state...

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Sacramento Connect

“Gamera the Invincible” at MOBS
May 18, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:30pm Admission:$5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA “Gamera the ...

Annual Victory Day Parade 2012
May 09, 2012
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Victory Day parade, the annual Red Square military parade which commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany and is Russia's most important secular...

Agroforestry is not rocket science but it might save DPR Korea
May 01, 2012
KOREA, April 30, 2012 - There is more going on in DPR Korea than rocket science: local people in collaboration with natural resources scientists are taking...

The Sociopathic Generation
April 18, 2012
There are times where I am absolutely appalled by the inappropriate reactions I receive from my students when I try to discuss some subjects in my 8th grade U.S...

Dan Bacher: Welcome to Police State Sacramento!
March 08, 2012
Photo of cops on the West Steps of the State Capitol courtesy of WSWS March 8, 2012 - I went downtown to the State Capitol on...

Madeleine Ostrander: What We Owe Adrienne Rich
April 02, 2012
Adrienne Rich, far right, at a writing workshop in 1980. Photo by K Kendall March 30, 2012 - I know you are reading ...

Other local news reports

Steven Greenhut: Socialism no answer to high water rate
March 24, 2012 | AppealDemocrat
Faced with rising water rates, some politicians and community activists in Southern California are revisiting a fundamental question that most of us thought had been answered by the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

Bruce's History Lesson: Stalin knew of atom bomb test
August 28, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
It was said of Josef Stalin, the ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II and part of the Cold War, that he would have made a terrific poker player, as...

From around the web

What Do You Want In The New Stadium?
May 17, 2012 | Daily Norseman
And I will sit him down on a bench and tell him how a bunch of mostly Minnesota Iron Range kids slayed the monster that was the Soviet Union, and brought home Olympic gold. MAKE...

Are the good times over for Iowa corn?
May 13, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Russia and Ukraine, whose agricultural woes hobbled the old Soviet Union during the Cold War, now are corn and wheat export powerhouses. A worldwide abundance of wheat spells...

'' It did not bother you to see the world tiny and unprotected, surrounded by darkness?
May 10, 2012 | MetaFilter
Only that was not the first photo... the Soviet Union had already done so three months earlier with Molniya I. It would be another year before the first full-frame color picture...

Sen. Richard Lugar's career over the years
May 09, 2012 | indystar.com
with the Soviet Union ... the former Soviet Union. April 19, 1995: He formally announces his presidential candidacy at Indianapolis' -- City Market. 1995 - 96: Lugar runs for...

Lugar, a foreign policy expert, was respected as a statesman
May 09, 2012 | indystar.com
Lugar's greatest achievement was working with then-Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., to create a program to secure or dismantle weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. The...

Indiana Senate: Richard Mourdock topples veteran Richard Lugar in Republican primary
May 08, 2012 | indystar.com
And as the GOP leader in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he's played a lead role in combatting the spread of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. But while...

Soviet Union on twitter

	we will be helping the soviet union in this war Twitter: @PresidentRoose1
	finland during the cold war makes me lol. we were the soviet union's reluctant bitch, lbr. #wildlyamusedbypoliticalhistory Twitter: @NoAllu
	But as a servant of the Soviet Union he'd always known the overall mission, which was to get vital information to his country, because his. Twitter: @tecuzit
	RT @OTOOLEFAN: RT @MendaciousMitt: Is Colin Powell going senile, @JoeNBC? Doesn't he realize that our biggest adversary is the Soviet Union? Twitter: @Fedup_Mom
	RT @MendaciousMitt: Is Colin Powell going senile, @JoeNBC? Doesn't he realize that our biggest adversary is the Soviet Union? Twitter: @susieq68old
	RT @OTOOLEFAN: RT @MendaciousMitt: Is Colin Powell going senile, @JoeNBC? Doesn't he realize that our biggest adversary is the Soviet Union? Twitter: @officiallyben

YouTube Videos

Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
July 12, 2010

Stabbing the Empire: Last Day of Soviet Union
December 11, 2011

Collapse of the Soviet Union 1991
January 24, 2008

Soviet Union Books

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll, $20.25

Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Dennis Prager, $16.93

The Jews in Poland and Russia, vol. 1, 1350 to 1881
Antony Polonsky, $51.35

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