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Vilen "Willi" Tokarev was "octobered" with the name Vilen after V.I. Lenin [1] [2]. Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union, [3] coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the so-called "revolutionary transformation of the society" with the corresponding fashion of neologisms and acronyms, [4] which Richard Stites ...
During World War I, Saint Petersburg was renamed 'Petrograd', amounting effectively to a translation of the name from German to Russian. At a meeting on November 16, 2016, with the prime ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Russia's prime minister Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Americano coffee should be renamed "Rusiano ...
With massive quantities of weapons and tanks from World War II, and the factories to produce them, the Soviets exported them and built up client states which spread their influence and became involved in the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing afterwards known as the Cold War ...
First formed during Russian Civil War from the 2nd Ukrainian Red Army and the Crimean Red Army and fought in the Southern and Southwestern Fronts. 16th Army: First formed during the Russian Civil War from the Lithuanian-Belorussian Red Army and fought on the Western Front. Red Army of the Northern Caucasus: In the Caucasus, 1918. Ukrainian Red Army
Wikipedia convention is to use the Soviet or Russian names and designations for these aircraft, not the post-World War II NATO reporting names, although these will be used as redirects to guide the reader to the desired article. The reporting names assigned by Western intelligence agencies listed here are provided for ease of reference; they ...
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Submarines of the Soviet Navy were developed by numbered "projects", which were sometimes but not always given names. During the Cold War, NATO nations referred to these classes by NATO reporting names, based on intelligence data, which did not always correspond with the projects. See: List of NATO reporting names for ballistic missile submarines
Circa 1972-73, many Chinese or Chinese-sounding place names in the Russian Far East were replaced with Russian-sounding ones. in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union , renamings (often for restoration of original names) happened, although infrequently.