The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I.It was first proposed by The 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, the British Foreign Secretary, to the Supreme War Council in 1919 (based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton) as a diplomatic basis for a future border agreement.

The "State Anthem of the Republic of Belarus" (Belarusian: Дзяржаўны гімн Рэспублікі Беларусь [d͡zʲarˈʐawnɨ ɣʲimn rɛsˈpublʲikʲi bʲɛɫaˈrusʲ]), better known as "My Belarusy" (Мы, беларусы; "We, Belarusians"), is the national anthem of Belarus.It was originally written in the 1940s and adopted in 1955 for use in the Byelorussian Soviet ...

Early life and education 1931–1950: Childhood. Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the village of Privolnoye, then in the North Caucasus Krai of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. At the time, Privolnoye was divided almost evenly between ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians. Gorbachev's paternal family were ethnic Russians and had …

The coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) was adopted on 10 July 1918 by the government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ... Four versions were used: 6 ribbons were used in 1923, which were written on in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani; ...

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.After Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year rule, Andropov served in the post from November 1982 until his death in February 1984.. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the …

Early life. A Ukrainian, Timoshenko was born in the village of Orman in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Furmanivka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine).. Military career First World War. In 1914, he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire and served as a cavalryman on Russia's western front in the First World War.Upon the outbreak of the …

The white-red-white flag (Belarusian: Бела-чырвона-белы сцяг, romanized: Biela-čyrvona-biely sciah) is a historic flag used by the Belarusian Democratic Republic in 1918 before Western Belorussia was occupied by the Second Polish Republic and Eastern Belorussia was occupied as a Soviet Republic, then by the Belarusian national movement in Western Belorussia …

The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on 22 September 1935. On 20 November, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov, …

The result of the conflict was a partial victory for the Second Polish Republic, which annexed the Western Ukrainian provinces, as well as a larger-scale victory for the pro-Soviet forces, which succeeded in dislodging the remaining factions and eventually established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Ukraine).

In 1936, the territory was officially separated from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and made a Soviet republic: the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. With an area of 2,717,300 km 2 (1,049,200 sq mi), the Kazakh SSR was the second-largest republic in the Soviet Union.

Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh (/ ˈ ɑːr t s ɑː x,-s æ x /) or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (/ n ə ˌ ɡ ɔːr n oʊ k æ r ə ˈ b æ k /), is a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan.Artsakh controls a part of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, including the capital of Stepanakert.

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Background. Several German-occupied countries initially entered World War II as Allies of the United Kingdom or the Soviet Union. Some were forced to surrender before the outbreak of the war such as Austria and Czechoslovakia; others like Poland (invaded on 1 September 1939) were conquered in battle and then occupied.In some cases, the legitimate governments went into …

The Polish People's Republic (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland.With a population of approximately 37.9 million near the end of its existence, it was the second-most populous communist and Eastern Bloc country in Europe. It was also one of the …