Soviet Union government

Soviet Union government

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  Spokesman: Gorbachev in hospital for tests

  A spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev says the 82-year-old former Soviet president is in the Kremlin's hospital for tests. Vladimir Polyakov told The ... 

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  AP PHOTOS: Few know story of Jews in Red Army

  Once a year, Israel's Jewish war veterans don suit jackets and uniforms dripping in Red Army medals, the shiny bronzes and silvers pinned to their ... 

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  Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87

  Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady, who ruled for 11 remarkable years, imposed ... 

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  Close encounters with the popes over 3 decades

  The Middle East Airlines jetliner had barely taken off from Beirut when I was escorted down the aisle to the first-class section and seated beside ... 

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  Russian WWII vet recalls the Battle of Stalingrad

  The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 ...