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    The Stalin Line was a line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union (USSR). Work began on the system in the 1920s to protect the...
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    Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday...
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    Front to withdraw to the Stalin Line on the approaches to Leningrad. On 2 July, Army Group North began its attack on the Stalin Line with its 4th Panzer Group...
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    Udhayanidhi Stalin (born 27 November 1977) is an Indian politician, film producer and former actor who has been the 3rd and current Deputy Chief Minister...
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    Molotov Line is informal and has come into use relatively recently. Viktor Suvorov popularised the term, notably in his book Icebreaker. Stalin Line Tomasz...
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    Front were ordered to retreat to the line of fortifications along the old Soviet-Polish border of 1939 (Stalin Line). III and XXXXVIII Motorized corps of...
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    (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalinism included the creation of a one man totalitarian...
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  • The Stalin (ザ・スターリン; stylized as THE STALIN) were a Japanese punk rock band formed in June 1980, by leader and vocalist Michiro Endo. After numerous member...
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    II. The IS acronym is the anglicized initialism of Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Ста́лин, Iosif Stalin). The heavy tanks were designed as a response to the capture...
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    started with 13 fortified districts, which over time evolved into the Stalin Line. Beginning in early 1942, long after the fortified lines in the west...
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    either 100 mm gun or 122 mm gun. Also known as SU-101 and SU-102. T-44 Stalin Line Museum, Zaslawye, Belarus. Rahachow, Belarus. Caponier Club Collection...
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    Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until...
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    carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders of the Politburo, headed by Stalin. Hundreds of thousands of people were...
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    of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young...
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  • Portuguese garrison border town of Elvas Fortified district Molotov Line Stalin Line German World War II fortresses / Fortress Europe Alpine Fortress Atlantic...
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    Neo-Stalinism is the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain or all...
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    of the Karelian Isthmus amongst other fortified areas (including the Stalin Line) constructed around that time in order to defend the western borders...
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    and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany...
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    government described the Oder–Neisse line as the result of tough negotiations between Polish Communists and Stalin. However, according to the modern Institute...
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    Vyacheslav Molotov (category Joseph Stalin)
    revolution. When Joseph Stalin returned to the capital, he reversed Molotov's line, but when Lenin arrived, he overruled Stalin. However, Molotov became...
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  • The accusation that Joseph Stalin was antisemitic is much discussed by historians. Although part of a movement that included Jews and ostensibly rejected...
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    The Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun, Latrun, Israel Stalin Line Museum, Minsk, Belarus Belarusian State Museum of Great Patriotic War...
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    Novgorod-Volynski and Letychiv along the 1939 Soviet-Polish border, known as the Stalin Line. Despite the delay in the advance of the German III Motorized Corps from...
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    Sovintovaara, Finland. One Ausf. G. SdKfz Team Poland, One Ausf. G. Stalin Line Museum, Minsk Region, Belarus. One Ausf. G superstructure and main gun...
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  • English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about Stalinism, Joseph Stalin, and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references...
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    the advance through Lithuania and Latvia, and by July had breached the Stalin Line. The division then advanced past Demyansk to Leningrad where it was involved...
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    independence. Belarus 02053164 – MiG-25RBS on static display at the Stalin Line Museum in Loshany, Minsk. Estonia N02050740 – MiG-25RBS on static display...
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    involving Finland Finland–Russia relations Finnish war children Salpa Line Stalin Line Volkhov Front Italian participation was limited to the four motor torpedo...
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    commonly referred to as the Stalin Era or the Stalinist Era, covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the...
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  • De-Stalinization (category Stalinism)
    reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to...
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