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Stalin: le tyran rouge (Stalin: The Red Tyrant) is a 2007 French television documentary film by Mathieu Schwartz, Serge de Sampigny, Yvan Demeulandre and the historic consultant Nicolas Werth about the government of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union.
French-Soviet Joint Declaration of June 30, 1966 is an important agreement on a range of cooperation between the Soviet Union and France, signed in Moscow at the same date by President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Podgorny and President of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle, which resumed with the Russian Federation since then.
The treaty was finally renounced in 1955, long after the Cold War had begun. [7] Stalin thought France was no longer a great power so de Gaulle had to make concessions to Stalin to obtain his support against Anglo-Saxon dominance, hoping to make France a bridge between the Soviets and the Anglo-Americans.
Stalin, preoccupied with a forbidden love of his daughter, waged war as in 1914–1918, sacrificing the Soviet people and sending millions of soldiers to their deaths in the endless siege of Leningrad in 1942, the black year of Russia. The German offensive crushed the Soviet troops during the winter of 1942.
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However, the prevalence of drug addiction remained reportedly low as first claimed by Soviet authorities [5] [6] which later (under Mikhail Gorbachev) acknowledged a much larger problem; [7] [8] at least to drugs other than alcohol or tobacco; [4] [9] however, the rates of addiction increased in post-Soviet states.
Two people, described as anti-communist activists by the Moscow Times, were arrested for throwing flowers and shouting abuse towards a statue of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on Tuesday ...
Putin is an unabashed admirer of Stalin and has worked — successfully, in Russia — to rehabilitate his image, which suffered for years after a posthumous denunciation in 1956 by Khrushcheva ...