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|1=Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)
|2=Katyn massacre
|3=Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250
|4=Bezhin Meadow
|5=Tear down this wall!
|6=Battle of Moscow
|7=T-34
|8=Tupolev Tu-142
|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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The Red Army raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 2 May 1945, six days before Germany surrenderedWorld War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global armed conflict that lasted from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945. With an estimated total of 70–85 million people dead, it is considered the deadliest conflict in human history. (Full article...)
Template:/box-headerSergo Konstantinovich Orjonikidze, born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze (24 October 1886 – 18 February 1937) was a Georgian Bolshevik and close ally of Stalin. He served as People's Commissar of Heavy Industry from 1932 to 1937 and followed a policy of re-educating bourgeois technical specialists. He committed suicide in 1937 after his assistant Pyatakov was found guilty of widespread sabotage and wrecking. (Full article...)
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