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On the far right, comrade was the standard form of address between members of the British Union of Fascists and featured widely in their publications and marching songs. In the United States, the word comrade carries a strong connotation with Communism, Marxism–Leninism, and the former Soviet Union.
Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively government ministers), while administrative officers are called commissaries.
The Second World War was unleashed by the forces of imperialism, which also had racism in its arsenal. — Olga Lepeshinskaya Perhaps the only opponents of Lysenkoism during Stalin's lifetime to escape liquidation were from the small community of Soviet nuclear physicists : according to Tony Judt , "it is significant that Stalin left his ...
After the Sino-Soviet division, the Chinese refused to embrace their Soviet counterparts or to address them as "comrade". [9] When Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev tried to embrace Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong on a visit to Beijing in 1959, Mao stepped back to avoid the embrace and offered a handshake instead. [10]
Moscow Kremlin, where the highest of the elite Soviet nomenklatura lived. The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, IPA: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə] ⓘ; from Latin: nomenclatura, system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries ...
During the Soviet era, the word товарищ (comrade) served as a universal form of address. Later it fell out of use due to its sexlessness and political connotations, while pre-Soviet styles seemed either archaic or too pompous (with the possible exception of the Ukrainian language, where the old honorific пан (pan) seems to be ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [t] (USSR), [u] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [v] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
It can be stated with certainty that the Party is indebted primarily and principally to Comrade Trotsky for the rapid going over of the garrison to the side of the Soviet and the efficient manner in which the work of the Military Revolutionary Committee was organized. The principal assistants of Comrade Trotsky were Comrades Antonov and Podvoisky.