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  2. Soviet Union in World War II - Wikipedia

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    On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.

  3. List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union

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    This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...

  4. Special settlements in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Special settlements in the Soviet Union were the result of population transfers and were performed in a series of operations organized according to social class or nationality of the deported. Resettling of "enemy classes" such as prosperous peasants and entire populations by ethnicity was a method of political repression in the Soviet Union ...

  5. Military occupations by the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, on 29 June 1945, a treaty was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, ceding Carpatho-Ukraine officially to the Soviet Union. Following the capture of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945 the Soviets withdrew in December 1945 as part of an agreement that all Soviet and US troops leave the country.

  6. Category:Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. World War II casualties of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Dead Soviet civilians near Minsk, Belarus, 1943 Kyiv, 23 June 1941 A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed.

  8. Evacuation in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation in the Soviet Union was the mass migration of western Soviet citizens and its industries eastward as a result of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia launched by Nazi Germany in June 1941 as part of World War II. Nearly sixteen million Soviet civilians and over 1,500 large factories were moved to areas in the middle or ...

  9. Closed city - Wikipedia

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    An example of international cooperation in these cities is the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI), a joint effort of the United States National Nuclear Security Administration and Minatom, which involves, in part, the cities of Sarov, Snezhinsk, and Zheleznogorsk. The number of closed cities has been significantly reduced since the mid-1990s.