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The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1986
ISLAM is as natural to the people of Afghanistan as the air they breathe. Any system repugnant to Islam or the introduction of alien forces to introduce a new social order has always been resisted by the Afghans. The present Afghan-Soviet war is one such
Mushtaqur Rahman
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Pecularities of collaboration during first soviet occupation

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2001
The specificity of collaboration in 1940 is its mass scale: collaboration had penetrated all segments of the population that was living in social illusions. The consequences of the collaboration were very painful; the occupiers succeeded in creating the
Liudas Truska
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Meaning of “Speculation“ and “Speculator“ in Lithuanian SSR (1940–1941)

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023
This research focuses on anti-speculation propaganda of Soviet regime in the years of First Soviet Occupation of Lithuania (1940–1941). Image of various speculation aproaches is analised as well as public communication of Soviet regime while installing ...
Darius Indrišionis
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Soviet Armed Forces in Lithuania in 1939–1941

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2021
During the first period of bringing the Soviet armed forces into the country, Soviet officers remained neutral in Lithuania for some time, however, they violated the Lithuanian border on the frontier, kidnapped our ordinary citizens and officials under ...
Gintautas Miknevičius
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The City of Bălți in 1940: Occupation, Sovietization, Repressions [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2023
The aim of this research is to highlight the situation in the city of Bălți in 1940, presented in archival and oral history documents. The annexation of the territories between the Dniester and the Prut rivers by the Soviet Union in 1940 also implied ...
Lidia PĂDUREAC
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Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered [PDF]

, 2014
Explores how young Soviet Jews survived the German occupation of Soviet territories, specifically ghettoization and mass ...
Anika Walke
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Testimony of Jonas Senkus about activity of Red terror museum

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2007
During the German occupation, the Museum of the Red Terror was established to collect testimonies of the horrors of the Soviet occupation in 1941–1944, as well as authentic Soviet security documents, which were even planned to be displayed in an ...
Arvydas Anušauskas
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Memories of an Unfulfilled Promise: Internationalism and Patriotism in Post-Soviet Oral Histories of Jewish Survivors of the Nazi Genocide [PDF]

, 2013
Memories of Soviet Jews who were born during the first two decades of the existence of the USSR show that the destruction of the Soviet society and its ideological tenets is central to their experience of the Nazi genocide.
Anika Walke
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Finance policy of Soviet Union in occupied Lithuania in 1940-1990: myths and reality

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2021
The article analyses a relevant issue – the investigation prompted by public demand into the damage inflicted by the Soviet Union – which is important for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as for foreign countries, because the economic development ...
Vida Komičienė
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Latvia's democratic resistance: a forgotten episode from the Second World War [PDF]

, 2009
In summer 1943 politicians representing the four main political parties of Latvia's democratic years came together to establish a movement which would both resist the German occupation and prevent the return of the Red Army. They considered the key to re-
Swain, G.
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