• and in 1981, François Mitterrand brought it back as a work-free day. (eurozine.com)
  • In 1981 President Reagan offered the USSR what was then called the zero-zero option-an undertaking that the US would not introduce Pershing IIs and land-based Cruise missiles into Europe (missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers) if the USSR removed the scores of recently deployed SS-20s that already covered NATO "targets"-and more of which were still being deployed. (nybooks.com)
  • 1981 SD USSR Academy of Science award. (edu.au)
  • Lest anyone worry, Harvest of Despair is not a work of Nazi apologia - quite the opposite. (axishistory.com)
  • Its principal members were Nazi Germany , the Kingdom of Italy , and the Empire of Japan . (wikipedia.org)
  • These gains had to be defended both internally and from imperialist attack, so this current defended the USSR against the Nazi invasion. (links.org.au)
  • The NAZI party (NAZI translated from German is National Socialism ) Socialism is used to gain control, complete central control of peoples, it seems so sweet at the onset, however it eliminates liberty and forces participation. (radicalrc.com)
  • In the final months of World War II , as Nazi Germany began to crumble, capturing Berlin had become the ultimate political and military prize. (history.com)
  • Burnham predicted that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia would inevitably be the winners. (arnoldit.com)
  • USSR and Nazi Germany. (arnoldit.com)
  • The opinion of most military leaders around the world, not just in Germany, was that Germany would easily defeat Russia within a month or two. (axishistory.com)
  • GM (1991) Rustem Khazitovich Dautov was born in Ufa, Russia and moved to Germany in 1994. (chessgames.com)
  • According to a source in the State Tretyakov Gallery, STG, the exposition features the works of Malevich and his followers, all of them taken from the collections of the STG, St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, and other museums of Russia, Western Europe and the USA. (pravda.ru)
  • Johnson drew from 23 archives in Russia, Germany, Poland, England and the U.S., uncovering a paper trail that confirmed the alliance in great detail. (newswise.com)
  • There are a lot of questions about how these institutions were set up after WWII and whether they're working in a post-Cold War moment when we have a rising Russia and a rising China. (newswise.com)
  • Certainly, I am not saying Americans in favor of Socialism are Communists or Nazis, what I am saying is the peoples of Russia, Germany, Greece, Cambodia ( Pol Pot ) were entrapped by socialist ideals and all ended in failure. (radicalrc.com)
  • We have the option of rejecting these failed ideals and avoiding the poverty and despair of Cuba, Russia, Germany and so many others. (radicalrc.com)
  • They mean that Putin's Russia genuinely resembles [Benito] Mussolini's Italy or [Adolf] Hitler's Germany," Alexander Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, specializing on Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, wrote in April 2015. (yahoo.com)
  • If Putin's Russia is fascist, then it is comparable to Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and, thus, certifiably evil. (yahoo.com)
  • On June 22, 1941, the Soviet-German War broke out, and on June 27 the Hefetz family left Daugavpils on foot, hoping to cross the old border into Russia. (yadvashem.org)
  • Yes, Lenin was forced to travel via Germany to Finland in order to reach revolutionary Russia. (marxist.com)
  • Russia made it part of the USSR after the war, and it remained a "Soviet Socialist Republic" until the USSR dissolved in 1991. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Because Soviet incentive structures were so bad, there was little the Germans could have done to be worse (economically speaking). (axishistory.com)
  • Thus the disparity between German/Soviet agricultural surplus creamed off the Ukraine was nowhere near as large as Thomas feared. (axishistory.com)
  • Matters came to a head after the Soviet encirclement of the German forces at Stalingrad in November 1942. (axishistory.com)
  • Amassing that force in six brief years was only possible because of a secret German-Soviet partnership that began more than a decade before Hitler came to power. (newswise.com)
  • In new research that is the first to elucidate exactly what occurred at secret facilities in the USSR, Ian Johnson , the P. J. Moran Family Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Notre Dame, details the inner workings of the German-Soviet alliance that laid the foundation for Germany's rise and ultimate downfall in World War II. (newswise.com)
  • During the first period of cooperation - formalized in 1922 when the nations signed the Treaty of Rapallo and initiated covert military operations - the Soviet Union hosted hundreds of German soldiers, engineers and scientists at secret military bases. (newswise.com)
  • While mistrust pervaded Soviet-German relations over the next six years, ties were never completely severed, Johnson writes. (newswise.com)
  • The Second World War in Europe had begun, sparked by a German-Soviet pact. (newswise.com)
  • In the early days of the war, the Soviet Union supplied Germany with large quantities of raw materials, until the alliance began to crumble again in November 1940 when Hitler demanded more overt support from the USSR but refused to entertain Stalin's counter-demands. (newswise.com)
  • Life in East Germany under collectivist socialism, under Soviet rule. (radicalrc.com)
  • There, Yaakov heard rumors of a Polish division being formed in the Soviet interior to fight against the Germans. (yadvashem.org)
  • When the USSR was still a source of life support, Castro preferred the Soviet model of large-scale, mechanized factory farms. (blogspot.com)
  • The status of 9 May was to undergo changes, both in the USSR and in central Europe, where the holiday calendar was not uniformly aligned on the Soviet model. (eurozine.com)
  • Курская битва ) refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In the middle lay a large 200km (120mi) wide and 150km (90mi) deep Soviet-held salient (bulge) in the lines between German forward positions near Orel in the north, and Von Manstein's recently captured Kharkov in the south. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Hitler, now desperate to end the war in the east before Allied military power could threaten German-occupied Europe from the west and south, planned to eliminate the large salient formed around Kursk and destroy the large Soviet forces deployed to defend it. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • My experience of trading with countries of the Soviet Bloc, spans 40 years while working both in Europe and Africa. (brugesgroup.com)
  • By the time the Berlin wall came down and the Soviet Bloc disintegrated, I was living in Germany. (brugesgroup.com)
  • The fall of the Soviet Union, almost thirty years ago, and the disintegration of the USSR presented the west with a golden opportunity. (brugesgroup.com)
  • Nothing came a year later of the famous "walk-in-the-woods" compromise formula that each side should be allowed to deploy seventy-five intermediate-range launchers, with the US agreeing that their package would not include Pershing II missiles (which were of particular concern to the USSR since their range meant that they could reach targets in Soviet territory). (nybooks.com)
  • This paper traces the development of freelance platform work in the Russian Federation and the wider post-Soviet space. (ilo.org)
  • In 1983, he was the U18 USSR chess champion. (chessgames.com)
  • 1983 Lenin Komsomol Prize (highest USSR prize for young scientists with age limit 33). (edu.au)
  • Yefremov wrote his first work of fiction, a short story, in 1944. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following Operation Panzerfaust , a German puppet under Ferenc Szálasi from 15 October 1944 onwards (see Germany and the Axis Powers , DiNardo, p. 189). (wikipedia.org)
  • A year before, in early 1944, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower , supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, had been all in on the idea of capturing the German capital: "Berlin is the main prize," he wrote to his British counterpart, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery . (history.com)
  • Did any of Hitler's most trusted generals warn the Führer against being overconfident of victory over Great Britain and the USSR just because the Wehrmacht had overrun Poland, Benelux, and France with considerable ease? (axishistory.com)
  • Britain and France in turn honored their guarantees to Poland and declared war on Germany. (newswise.com)
  • In Poland, Victory Day remained work-free until a new list of holidays was decreed in 1951. (eurozine.com)
  • In the USSR, in Poland and the other socialist republics, this change of status did not mean the end of commemorations. (eurozine.com)
  • The aircraft was delivered in July, but Germany invaded Poland on 1 September, with the USSR following on 17 September, making a record-breaking attempt untenable. (nxtbook.com)
  • Johnson's book, " Faustian Bargain ," traces the on-again, off-again relationship from the first tentative connections between the sworn enemies in 1919, made "almost before the ink had dried on the treaties ending the First World War," to Hitler's betrayal of Joseph Stalin and invasion of the USSR in 1941. (newswise.com)
  • He consistently ignored intelligence indicating that anything else would happen, so when the German invasion came in 1941, it was a horrific surprise with ugly consequences for both countries. (newswise.com)
  • Henceforth the USSR would usually commemorate the 'Great Patriotic War' of 1941-1945 and not the Second World War. (eurozine.com)
  • I read that Field Marshal Gert Von Rundstedt noted the stark reality of "Ost-krieg" versus what had played out in the West vis a vis France and Great Britain militarily, and that several German generals cautioned Hitler about waging a two-front war in Europe. (axishistory.com)
  • Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibition and supported by its historical resources, the film examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States and race laws in the American south. (kpbs.org)
  • Newswise - From 1933 to 1939, Adolf Hitler grew the German military from 100,000 soldiers to nearly 4 million and from a few dozen combat vehicles to a fleet of thousands of the most technologically advanced planes and tanks of the time. (newswise.com)
  • Seated from left to right are the Japanese ambassador to Germany Saburō Kurusu , Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano , and Adolf Hitler . (wikipedia.org)
  • One prize in the Allies' race to take Berlin: the German scientists working to develop the atomic bomb. (history.com)
  • His paintings were banned in the USSR for thirty years. (pravda.ru)
  • The article examines artistic exchanges between the USSR and Finland from the viewpoint of the Finnish left. (jyu.fi)
  • Henceforth, the victory would be celebrated in the USSR and its satellite states a day later than in the West. (eurozine.com)
  • For German military leaders, the alliance with the Soviets allowed them to get around the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which dismantled the Imperial German Army after WWI and forbade Germany from developing or purchasing modern tools of war. (newswise.com)
  • As early as December 1947, however, Stalin scrapped 9 May as a work-free holiday in the USSR in favour of 1 January. (eurozine.com)
  • After the Italian surrender in September 1943 , the Italian Social Republic , a German puppet state, was formed in northern Italy and existed until the surrender on 29 April 1945. (wikipedia.org)
  • The USSR was being asked to surrender a weapon that it had already deployed in exchange for an undertaking that the US would not deploy two that were still, as it were, in store. (nybooks.com)
  • She devoted her PhD thesis to the relationship between paintings and politics in the USSR during the 1920s-1930s (published in 2013, Presses du réel, Dijon). (lu.se)
  • Many responded by denouncing the Nazis, marching in protest and boycotting German goods. (kpbs.org)
  • These two views were mutually exclusive in their analyses, but came to the same political conclusion regarding the Second World War, namely that the USSR should not be defended when German imperialism under the Nazis launched its invasion of the USSR. (links.org.au)
  • The signing of the Tripartite Pact by Germany, Japan, and Italy on 27 September 1940 in Berlin . (wikipedia.org)
  • The "Rome-Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called " Pact of Steel ", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 formally integrating the military aims of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later followed by other nations. (wikipedia.org)
  • In February and March 1943, German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein had completed an offensive during the Third Battle of Kharkov, leaving the front line running roughly from Leningrad in the north to Rostov in the south. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Thomas was wrong as regards 1942, when Germany got 20% of its calories from the occupied SU. (axishistory.com)
  • As early as 22 March 1942 Fromm informed Keitel that he was worried that large scale offensive operations were not feasible in 1942 because of manpower and munitions shortages and when the offensive into the Caucasus began that summer Fromm told Speer that it was a luxury Germany could ill-afford in the " poor man's " situation in which it found itself. (axishistory.com)
  • As a follow-up to the comprehensive revision it received in early 2017, we'll be working on combat parameters of the Maus, Mäuschen, and 8,8 cm pak 43 Jagdtiger. (worldoftanks.com)
  • One complete German army had been destroyed, along with about 800,000 German and Axis troops , seriously depleting Axis strength in the east. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • May another grand slaughter of the surrounded German troops in the Korsun-Shevchenko region serve as yet another lesson for the Germans: how dangerous it is to trust the Führer's false promises. (artic.edu)
  • Germany, Italy, and Japan are typically described as being the "major" (or similar) countries amongst the Axis powers (see e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • Official position of wartime government was that they were a co-belligerent of the Axis against the USSR and United Kingdom during the Continuation War , but generally considered to be a member of the Axis (see e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Axis grew out of successive diplomatic efforts by Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. (wikipedia.org)
  • crashed, and it was left that way so as not to delay the work to get the aircraft ready to circumnavigate the globe in the summer of 1939. (nxtbook.com)
  • And that's why it's so exciting that in the first half of 2023 Germany finally crashed through the 50% barrier, becoming the first significant country with little hydropower to achieve more than half of its electricity generation from "renewables. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Record Additions in Germany: 8,000 MW of New Wind And Solar Capacity in The First Half of 2023. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • June 6, 2014 - Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In this two-part article I examine the ramifications for today of the three theories of the USSR that emerged from the Left Opposition: state capitalism, bureaucratic collectivism and Leon Trotsky's theory of the degenerated workers' state. (links.org.au)
  • As soon as they returned to power they killed off the one sponsored by the federal and state governments -- the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research -- by withdrawing its funds. (csmonitor.com)
  • No university here has a department or even a program for studying conflict resolution, points out Andreas Zumach, a leading Christian activist in the antinuclear movement of the early 1980s and head of international relations for Action Reconciliation, a Protestant organization that sends volunteers to work in Israel, the United States, and the Auschwitz memorial. (csmonitor.com)
  • In France, 8 May became a work-free holiday only in 1953, before losing that status again in a calendar reform in 1959. (eurozine.com)
  • Here at FineArtAmerica you can buy some of her works as Prints, and the collection is expanded with new images on a regular basis. (fineartamerica.com)
  • The Kursk salient (also known as the Kursk bulge) was created in the aftermath of the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Professor Sharp said: "We are currently working to understand which genetic differences between SIVcpz and HIV-1 evolved as a response to the species jump. (balloon-juice.com)
  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is a Professor in the German Department at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. (lu.se)
  • Fromm recognised the moment as decisive and put his career on the line by submitting another memorandum to OKW detailing the virtual impossibility of Germany winning the war with the resources available and urging immediate peace negotiations while Germany's conquests were at their peak. (axishistory.com)
  • Our centrally planned economic recovery will be just as rigorous Pre-War Germany's or the USSR's but it will work much better because it will be 'green. (thedailybell.com)
  • Petra Dautov, the wife of Russian grandmaster Rustam Dautov, was in 1988 the still unattached Petra Stadler, who eagerly followed Boris Spassky's advice, given during a team competition in Solingen, Germany, to send a letter and her picture to Fischer. (chessgames.com)
  • 1974 Award for best undergraduate student research work, all-USSR competition. (edu.au)
  • Twenty years ago, I was living and working in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (brugesgroup.com)
  • Once the German forces had exhausted themselves against the in-depth defenses, the Soviets responded with their own counteroffensives, which allowed the Red Army to retake Orel and Belgorod on August 5, and Kharkov on August 23 and to push back the Germans across a broad front. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Some Americans make the argument that we can ignore history, that we never tried it fully and that's why it will work for us, we are American's after all. (radicalrc.com)
  • TBE virus infection is a risk for certain travelers and for laboratory workers who work with the virus. (cdc.gov)
  • The German-American physician Anton Dilger established a secret biological laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent to grow the causative agents of anthrax and glanders. (medscape.com)
  • We continue to work very closely with Chinese authorities to ensure that we are engaging to be a partner in the liberalization of their financial system," she told a webinar held by Afore Consulting in Brussels. (politico.eu)
  • His family was classified as "proletarian" - i.e., poor and working - by the new authorities. (yadvashem.org)
  • They planned on repeating this strategy in the USSR and started construction of a massive series of defensive works known as the Panther-Wotan line. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The explanation for this dearth may be found in the traditional German approach to both academics and politics. (csmonitor.com)
  • Germany Latest news, analysis and comment on German politics and beyond. (politico.eu)
  • Colonel General Fromm was arguably more important than any single German field marshal. (axishistory.com)
  • Within online labour markets, an important distinction is made between "microwork" or "piecework" platforms for low-skilled repetitive tasks (such as entering data, classifying images or transcribing texts) and freelance platforms that involve more creative and knowledge-based work by individuals such as software developers, graphic designers, writers and consultants (Berg et al. (ilo.org)
  • Scholars tend to focus primarily on the global English-language platforms and on the North-South dimension of online work, virtually ignoring important developments in other parts of the world that fall outside this distinction (Kässi and Lehdonvirta 2018). (ilo.org)
  • This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for all countries except Germany, Italy, Portugal, Danzig, and the former territories of the USSR. (boosey.com)
  • Lithuanians have been migrating to other countries for work since the end of the communist era. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Prague's pleasant nature and fairy-tale buildings make a person calm and inspire a special desire to do scientific work. (lu.se)
  • EAST GERMAN ELECTION PREPARATIONS BRING PROTESTS Party functionaries are trying to bring out the largest possible vote for the single list of can- didates without making concessions to the populace. (cia.gov)
  • On Friday, Patrick Clawson, the director of research at the pro-Israel think-tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, suggested that the US should work covertly and through international means of force to provoke Iran to take the first shot against the US or Israel. (antiwar.com)
  • It was the last strategic blitzkrieg offensive the Germans were able to execute in the east. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Several joint papers with Jörg, dealing with a comparison between West German (FRG) and East German (GDR) children's literature, are in the pipeline. (lu.se)
  • True, Western Germany and Japan had been democratised, but that was 'forced' upon them as the price of peace. (brugesgroup.com)
  • In 1917, the Germans had built the famous Hindenburg Line on the Western Front, shortening their lines and thereby increasing their defensive strength. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Without these bases, Germany wouldn't have had modern tanks or planes at all, and when the war began, they had some of the best in the world. (newswise.com)
  • The "Russian explosion" thundered most audibly in 1915, when St. Petersburg hosted the first exhibition of Malevich's works, which included the painting of a plain black square against a white background-the painter's manifesto, a jump into the sphere of the objectless, a crucial event in the history of Russian and world art. (pravda.ru)
  • As well as solving the mystery of the origin of the virus, the findings prepare the way for future work exploring the history and behaviour of the simian form of HIV in its natural host. (balloon-juice.com)
  • This is recognized to be a unique incident in a long history of work with SFV under minimal biocontainment conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • Her research interests focus on the history and theory of the picturebook, postwar German children's literature and culture, canon processes in children's literature and the impact of the Avant-garde on children's literature and children's films. (lu.se)
  • Central planning doesn't work as it is essentially price fixing on a grand scale. (thedailybell.com)
  • As I have said in an earlier article, 1 only President Bush and Mr. Gorbachev can resolve any significant differences that exist between the US and USSR negotiating positions not only in the Vienna talks but also in the Geneva talks on Strategic Nuclear Forces (START). (nybooks.com)
  • On the way he received funds from the Kaiser and actively worked to sabotage the Allied war effort under the direction of the Germans. (marxist.com)
  • Despite the active peace movement and the rise of the antinuclear and pro-ecology Green Party in this decade, neither the academic nor the political climate has been hospitable for peace studies in West Germany. (csmonitor.com)
  • The only voice against Operation Barbarossa in the senior ranks was Admiral Raeder, not because he had any idea that it wouldn't work, but because he thought it would take resources away from his department, the navy. (axishistory.com)
  • Certainly, Germany has only accelerated its pursuit of the idea that the route to Net Zero is the building of more and yet more solar panels and wind turbines. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • At the dawn of the twenty-first century, freelance work through online platforms emerged as a new phenomenon, gradually becoming a distinctive feature of the digital economy. (ilo.org)
  • Online labour markets represent a distinct segment of the wider gig economy, which, in contrast to localized gig work (such as taxi driving, delivery, handiwork and cleaning), implies work that can be delivered electronically. (ilo.org)
  • While several large-scale international surveys have addressed these questions, most reported only aggregate results for the gig economy as a whole, combining both online and local work (Berg et al. (ilo.org)
  • This type of research can shed light on the dynamics and future of online platform work and can inform social and legislative initiatives. (ilo.org)
  • Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. (artic.edu)
  • 2016-2021 Gutenberg Fellowship, Germany, with 600 000 Euro= $ 970 000 research grant. (edu.au)
  • Pioneering works which created new fields of research, led to discoveries and new theories. (edu.au)
  • She currently works with school-based research and development of education at Pedagogisk Inspiration (PI) Malmö and is affiliated at Malmö University as a researcher. (lu.se)
  • It would be appropriate to mention here that today, Malevich is one of the world's most expensive artists, whose works cost millions of dollars and follow in the tracks of Van Gogh and Claude Monet. (pravda.ru)
  • The Germans and Soviets would use each other - at great cost - to remedy their own perceived military weaknesses," Johnson writes. (newswise.com)
  • They cost hard work, at times, blood and treasure. (brugesgroup.com)
  • Lenin was well aware of the political risk he was taking by travelling through Germany, and that is why he insisted on the train being 'sealed', with nobody coming on or off for the duration of the trip. (marxist.com)
  • We intend our study to demonstrate not only Marcuse's relevancy, but also the urgency with which we must evaluate his life and work in light of continuities and transformations within the present system of social relations and institutions from Marcuse's time to our own. (bvsalud.org)
  • Along with the conversion work, the new, larger tail was installed, and the engines were changed back to the same types as on the TWA fleet in place of the nonstandard, uncertified engines intended for the round-the-world flight. (nxtbook.com)
  • This is the only festival in the world that focuses on animated works by women and the trans and gender diverse community. (sensesofcinema.com)
  • During World War I, the Germans developed anthrax, glanders, cholera, and a wheat fungus for use as biological weapons. (medscape.com)