My name is Koustav. I was born and raised in the beautiful country of Kazahstan, which is located in the Central Asia and was the part of the former Soviet Union. I finished High School there and attended four-year college for about two years. I was majoring in Customs Law, but I didn't finish it, because my mother won a lottery Green-card (permanent residence in USA) and we decided to move to America. I have only one older brother. His name is Ulan. Hi is 30 years old. We are very close to each
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uk) creating a bipolar world, following World War II and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Kingdom's status as a superpower was greatly diminished and shifted over to the United States and the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War period. At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, only the United States appeared to fulfill the criteria of being a world superpower leaving it as the only true superpower. However with the increase in emerging superpowers such
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Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, speaking to the people of this city and the world at the City Hall. Well, since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn, to Berlin. And today I, myself, make my second visit to your city. We come to Berlin, we American presidents, because it's our duty to speak, in this place, of freedom. But I must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well: by
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“The Portraiture of the author’s Perspective on State of his/ her current epoch through literature” Greek culture has had a profound impact on Western Civilizations. It is always and ever be the pinnacle of human ingenuity. The Greeks have bestowed upon Western culture the concepts of citizen’s rights, democracy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, etc. More importantly, the Greeks also had a highly developed spiritual life that is evident in Homer’s eclectic tale The Iliad. Through this highly developed
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'big' would come out of this war; a new heaven and a new earth." He was convinced that only the United States could offer any innovative thinking in intervention. He presumed that the Soviet Union's need for postwar economic aid would give the United States continued leverage. Although he didn't factor in the Soviet Union's industrial performance. Also, he could not find a way to prevent the Russians from dominating Eastern Europe after the war. One thing that was agreed on by all three powers was
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underlying tension. Due to the common enemy of Nazism having been removed, the differences in the political ideologies of the east and west were immediately highlighted consequently causing an initial rise in tension. Although at the time Stalin and the Soviet Union were solely thought to be to blame for the intense rise in tension during 1945-1949, there were more subtle and underlying issues which provoked more aggressive and inflammatory actions from the USSR which created this illusion that the East
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president because of his limited knowledge on foreign affairs. He had a | | |catalysts. | |direct and abrasive style when dealing with representatives of the soviet union E.g. Soviet foreign minister, Molotov. | | | | |Foreign policies of President Truman and significance.
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hard in their jobs. This is one of the major reasons for the economic downfall of the Soviet Union during the late twentieth century. The Soviet Union tried to unite the multiple countries and ethnicities under a central, Russian state. “First, the Soviets underestimated the degree to which the non-Russian ethnic groups in the country (which comprised more than fifty percent of the total population of the Soviet Union) would resist assimilation into a Russianized State.”(coldwarmuseum) Many Non-Russian
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Argo is one of the prime-contenders at this year’s Academy awards. In fact by the time this project is completed, it might well have won the Best Picture Oscar. So what makes this film Oscar-worthy? There is a two-fold answer to this and like all occurrences in the arena of International Relations, it can be interpreted either Ideally or Realistically. The Idealistic interpretation would be that the movie is a pseudo-documentary that tells things as they were and is bolstered by some brilliant acting
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competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. The U.S. struggle to contain Soviet communism worldwide resulted in what came to be known as the "Cold War". Although full-scale war between the U.S. and Soviet Union did not occur, two major wars, (Korea and Vietnam), and many smaller conflicts occurred between 1946 and 1991 over the battle between democracy and communism. The Cold war was a product
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