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In 2010, Montford was elected to the Florida Senate from the 6th District, and was the Senate Minority Whip for 2010-2012. His district was renumbered the 3rd during redistricting in 2012. In 2016, he was re-elected with 67.4% of the vote over Republican challenger Nancy Miller. [5]
Trotsky controversially suggested that Stalin had poisoned V.I. Lenin, seen here with Stalin recuperating from a stroke in the city of Gorky. Stalin begins with an unfinished introduction where Trotsky attempts to prove his objectivity in relation to the events in the rest of the book, however was never finished due to his assassination. [12]
However, Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate and he died at 9:50 p.m. on 5 March 1953. His death was announced the next day on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. [6] Stalin's body was then taken to an unspecified location and an autopsy performed, after which it was embalmed for public viewing.
Boynton Beach writer Mark Schneider shows commonalities between Russia's Putin and America's Christian right wing.
Three sources close to him have told The Daily Beast that they believe he was poisoned.Two friends and a relative of Jean Sinclair Maka Gbossokotto say the late journalist told associates he was ...
Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, [7] and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. [8] For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
Putin’s pro- and anti-Stalin balancing act. Of course, this favorable view is not uncontested. The Russian human rights organization Memorial worked tirelessly for over 30 years to document ...
Stalin has been accused of genocide in the cases of forced population transfer in the Soviet Union. Raphael Lemkin , a lawyer of Polish - Jewish descent who initiated the Genocide Convention and coined the term genocide himself, assumed that genocide was perpetrated in the context of the mass deportation of the Chechens, Ingush, Volga Germans ...