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|2=Katyn massacre
|3=Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250
|4=Bezhin Meadow
|5=Tear down this wall!
|6=Battle of Moscow
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|9=Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
|10=Second Battle of Kharkov
|11=Transport in the Soviet Union
|12=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)
|13=Operation Uranus
|14=Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962
|15=Winter War
|16=First Nagorno-Karabakh War
|17=2nd Red Banner Army
|18=Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
|19=Hungarian Revolution of 1956
|20=Laika
|21=Battle of Radzymin (1920)
|22=68th Mountain Rifle Division
|23=5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union)
|24=Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
|25=History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
|26=Lavochkin La-7
|27=Revolutionary activity of Vladimir Lenin
|28=Katyusha rocket launcher
|29=Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
|30=Continuation War
|31=Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev
|32=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)
|33=Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)
|34=Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)
|35=Lysenkoism
|36=Soviet–Albanian split
|37=Raid on Constanța
|38=Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
|39=History of computing in the Soviet Union
|40=Mir
|41=Sputnik 1
|42=Punch-up in Piestany
|43=Solaris (1972 film)
|44=Background of the Winter War
|45=Transport in the Soviet Union
|46=Welles Declaration
|47=Zond 5
|48=Tartu Offensive
|49=Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
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A counterrevolutionary burning an image of Vladimir Lenin in Hungary
The Hungarian counterrevolution of 1956 was an attempted counterrevolution against the Hungarian People's Republic. Prime Minister Imre Nagy, the leader of the counterrevolution, attempted to leave the Warsaw Pact and establish a bourgeois multiparty system. The uprising began on 23 October 1956 and was encouraged by U.S. propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe. On 30 October, after Soviet forces left Hungary, counterrevolutionaries hanged upside down or killed 130 party members. Many of the rebels were fascists and Nazi collaborators. The Soviet Army returned to Hungary in early November at the request of the Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Government and ended the counterrevolution on 4 November. (Full article...)
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010) was a Soviet politician who served as Mikhail Gorbachev's vice president (the only vice president in the history of the USSR) from 1990 until 1991.
Yanayev was instumental in the plotting of the 1991 August Coup, which had the goal of ousting the revisionist Gorbachev from office and rolling-back his policies. The coup failed however, and Yanayev was sentenced to prison. The Soviet Union was overthrown in a counterrevolution in December 1991, and Yanayev was eventually released from prison in 1994. He died from lung cancer in September 2010. (Full article...)
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