... nation once again became united. Upon its surrender to the allied forces on May 8, 1945, the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union partitioned Germany into four zones for occupation. In the face of the intensifying Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II, the U.S., Britain and France consolidated the zones under their respective occupation, establishing... on Sept. 7, 1949. On Oct. 7, 1949, the Soviet Union created the German Democratic Republic (that is, East Germany) in the zone under its occupation. Despite its division into four sections, its occupiers fortunately placed Germany under a single economic zone. During their talks at Potsdam from Jul. 17 to Aug. 2 1945, the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to put the four occupied areas under... Affected by perestroika (reform) and glasnost pursued by Gorbachev, who was then Communist Party General Secretary of the Soviet Union, communist countries in Eastern Europe set themselves on the path of democratisation and liberalization, breaking out of the shackles of the Soviet Union. Encouraged by the strong winds of autonomy and democracy in Eastern Europe, 16 million East Germans joined the crusade ...
... Yes. Towarnicki: And secondly, he seems to fear that the world situation – as well as future crises awaiting us – will force the Soviet Union to make a strategic move and seize Europe's industrial riches, among other things. Not because the Soviet Union is evil, but because, as I mentioned earlier, for a good chess player Europe is a square up for grabs, and it would help neutralize the United... So, instead of pushing them to the wall, of forcing them to resort to desperate acts; instead of surrounding them like a pack of wolves – everybody is constantly saying, "The Soviet Union, the Soviet Union," crying wolf, you know, while the Chinese are doing their level best to... (how shall I put it?) stir up that anti-Soviet sentiment – because if the Soviets feel encircled, surrounded on all... and Sri Aurobindo saw. Towarnicki: Yes. Page 190 And they saw the danger with China. And I also feel that danger. Towarnicki: You also feel it. Oh, yes! The Soviet Union has come to the END of its communist experience. As Mother said, "They've come to the end of their experience and they don't know how to get out of it." They are ready for something else. 8 ...
... up and fight for a brotherhood of rationalism and socialism. The culmination of the true spirit of this culture seems to him the Soviet Union. Not that he is a thorough communist or that he fails to realise the various follies and savageries the Soviet Union has committed or the lack of political democracy it exhibits. Still, for its ideal of economic democracy, of concentration on concrete... from misty escapism, the Soviet Union Page 5 is counted by him the best collective endeavour today of the enlightened philanthropy and dynamic earth-fulfilling culture that are to him essential for Freedom and that he would make his own mind's substance and force. Side by side with the figure of Freedom which he discerns in the Soviet Union is the figure of it he has ...
... South Korea. 12th Asian Games: 1994 Hiroshima (Japan) (In addition to the countries which participated in 1990, several newly independent Asian republics which were formerly part of the Soviet Union have sent athletes for the first time: Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Also Cambodia was able to send a team for the first time since 1974) (Disciplines: Archery... supervise and encourage sport at the highest competitive levels. It presides over a vast geographic area which includes the Far East and the Middle East, as well as some countries from the former Soviet Union. The permanent headquarters of the OCA is in Kuwait. ______________________________ Note based on informations from Handbook of Asian Games, ...
... provide aid and support to the Khalistan movement in Punjab.13 In addition, the CIA and the ISI collaborated to discredit then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's granting of naval facilities to the Soviet Union at Vizag and on the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The program came to an end with Gandhi's death in 1984.14 YAHYA KHAN AND THE GROWTH OF ISI Under President Yahya Khan, the ISI once... India's independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, its rst Prime Minister, implemented a foreign policy of nonalignment, which afforded India the opportunity to actively engage both the United States and the Soviet Union. As India became more intimately involved with the USSR, U.S. policymakers sought stronger ties with India's neighbor, Pakistan. 14 Major General Yashwant Deva, AVSM (Ret.), ''ISI and Its ...
... pursue a course of action that resulted in Bhutto's death by hanging in 1977. Zia became an international pariah after this incident. However, his fortunes underwent a reversal in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Pakistan was now a frontline state, and became the beneficiary of large-scale American aid to the tune of $3.2 billion over five years. Of this, it is estimated that 20%... (ISI) division, to arming and training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Their operations took a heavy toll on the Soviet garrison. Unable to withstand the armed resistance of the Mujahideen, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan. This palpable victory for Zia soured quickly since it turned Pakistan into an urban jungle, and may have even led to Zia's death. The presence of three million war refugees ...
... Monnet would discover at the end of his life: "the extreme point of an action continuously striving towards the unity of men". 2 Paris, 1950 — The danger to Europe of a war with the Soviet Union was becoming more and more tangible. People spoke of unavoidable conflict. Jean Monnet felt that the cold war, which had for its essential objective to make the opponent give way, was the first... after devising a dangerous scheme: Silvia first took the Soviet nationality then she divorced unilaterally and then remarried. The risk of course was that Silvia would not be allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Fortunately everything went according to plan. Monnet's first voyage to China was at the end of 1933. He was invited to make a plan of reconstruction that could attract international investments ...
... laterty his idealistic modernity, shedding some early biases, was brighter, wider, deeper, and he was living out more and more the Indian youthfulness afire in him. Nehru grew up side by side with the Soviet Union: his adult life synchronised with the development of Leninism and Stalinism, and it was very much coloured by the Marxist doctrine as embodied in contemporary Russia. He was for years impressed... it is significant that in 1949, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday, he went on a mission of goodwill to the U.S.A., a country whose whole economy ran counter to the Marxist collectivism of the Soviet Union. The mission could never have come about if he had not realised, as he had scarcely done some years before, that countries which were not unstained by a history of capitalist, racialist and imperialist ...
... form of world government must respect and encourage the freedom of the individual, and this form has now gained a new force. This is the third important con sequence. For, with the break up of the Soviet Union, several of Page 58 its constituents have emerged as new independent and sovereign states. This even reaffirms the psychological and moral principle of self determination, which was... and the perfection of the life of society as an economic and productive organism. The European idealism, which was manifest to some extent in Communism;. could not be sustained in the Socialist Soviet Union. Marxian principle itself proceeded on the premise that the reign of socialism has to be preceded by an age of bourgeois capitalism and should seize upon its work and organisation in order to turn ...
... reason since they have an immense power of sacrifice; second, the population of China. NIRODBARAN: And foreign help to China—for example, from the Soviet Union? SRI AUROBINDO: That's a possibility, but the internal condition of the Soviet Union is such that it can't think of givingexternal help to others. NIRODBARAN: What about India's independence? Is it developing along your lines? SRI ...
... Bolshevik dictatorship and worked for a democratic Russia. The German Social Democrats, including the most radical, Rosa Luxemburg, also feared Bolshevik success. Only during the civil war in the Soviet Union, when the choice was either Lenin or the tsarists, did large numbers of young Jews choose the Bolsheviks – and they were atheists, a requirement for joining.” (John Weiss 609) The total number of ...
... Hitler decided ‘that the time had come for Lebensraum and the destruction of Bolshevism. He instructed the army to make preparations in this direction … A surprise attack was to be launched on the Soviet Union as soon as possible — May 1941.’ 49 The staff officers whom General Jodl informed of Hitler’s decision could not believe their ears. Germany was still fully involved in the war against England ...
... Germany became a sovereign state. The struggle for power after Stalin’s death raged on in the Kremlin creating an unstable situation with great dangers for the country and the world. China and the Soviet-Union still acted in unison. The nuclear race was in full swing. We read in K.D. Sethna: ‘When she concluded her talk on 5 January 1955, a few questions were put to her by one of the brightest students ...
... have in Auroville a very nice meeting between 45 very young people from Russia (USSR), USA and India, called "The Peace Trees." It is a new hope for the world, the actual change happening in the Soviet Union. These Russian young guests are very interested in Sri Aurobindo and Indian philosophy. I hope you are in a good health, and I wish you a luminous 1989 in Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's Light. ...
... predominant motives of the Japanese consciousness – the aesthetic and the martial motives – authentically shine out in the depiction. In the red banner, with the hammer and sickle and star, the Soviet Union has impressively figured itself. The proletarian mood Page 31 is evident in the hammer and sickle, but there is also evident the force that always beats down and the keenness ...
... affairs in a new light. The long chain of history and of social development appeared to have some meaning, some sequence, and the future lost some of its obscurity. The practical achievements of the Soviet Union were also tremendously impressive. Often I disliked or did not understand some development there and it seemed to me to be too closely concerned with the opportunism of the moment or the power politics ...
... l poisoning, or it could have been the after-effect of a streptococcal infection. I thought as hard I could about the sequence of events immediately preceding the illness. I had gone to the Soviet Union in July 1964 as chairman of an American delegation to consider the problems of cultural exchange. The conference had been held in Leningrad, after which we went to Moscow for supplementary meetings ...
... to this added piece of information coming from the lips of the much-practising surgeon! (5)Now a piece of American joke with its habitual dig at the pre-Gorbachevian system prevailing in the Soviet Union. An American surgeon was on a visit to a reputed Moscow hospital. He saw there the Soviet doctors doing many difficult and complicated operations with great skill and expertise: the bio-medical ...
... are still inherent in the life of all normal communities, although the class divisions no longer exist. The present society may be called a purely productive and commercial society. We have, in Soviet Union, even a Shudra society of labour. But even in these societies, these four types of functions persist. There are thinkers moved to find the law and truth and guiding rules of existence; there are ...
... expressed a desire to know more about us. That is, about the aims and ideals of the Ashram, the spiritual disciplines we follow and their rationale. You know, officially and in the world's eye the Soviet Union is atheistic and follows a materialist philosophy of life. God, soul, the beyond or the higher worlds, in these things the new Russians of today have no faith, none. Their entire stress or śraddhā ...
... this intermediate stage in the progress towards a total world-union presents difficulties which make it almost impossible. Its place has been taken by such agglomerations as the Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and such possibilities as the proposed United States of Europe and other continental combinations such as are coming into being as between the two Americas and may some day be possible in Asia. ...
... the national idea, may still be a possibility. × This has been modified by the substitution of a Soviet Union claiming to unite these Asiatic peoples voluntarily with Russia: but one is not quite sure whether this is a permanent reality or only a temporary apparent phenomenon. ...
... never even held the overawing weapon as a threat against any nation although she had the monopoly of it until 1949: that is, until the formulas stolen from her by Russia-inspired spies enabled the Soviet Union to make its own bomb. Clearly the later nuclear programme of the U.S. did not stem from an aggressive motive. It stemmed from a distrust of Russia based on the latter's moves in Eastern Europe soon ...
... age in the light of Sri Aurobindo, most aptly described by C.R. Reddy as "the sole sufficing genius of our age". 2 We begin with Marxism. The recent happenings in the Soviet Union and other East European countries clearly suggest that Marxist communism has swiftly collapsed. It is true that Sri Aurobindo rejected Marxism as an erroneous and fallacious doctrine, but ...
... awesome a collective level, would have been to open a Pandora’s Box of incipient ills for the future. And it would have been profoundly unsettling, for citizens of both the Western democracies and the Soviet Union, to confront too blatantly what precisely they had been up against … “In consequence, for a generation of post-war historians and commentators, the role of esotericism in the rise of Nazi-Germany ...
... to do something!), and he would visit, speak to people... I don't know about what. And during one of his trips to Delhi he happened to meet Z, who had been sent by the government of India to the Soviet Union, where it seems he delivered an extraordinary speech (it must have been extraordinary, because I have been receiving letters from everywhere, including America, asking for the text of this sensational ...
... The Task Force has no quarrel with India's foreign policy either. It notes no doubt with some satisfaction that "longstanding support for non-alignment and intimate security ties with the Soviet Union have lost much of their relevance" and that "in the altered global landscape, New Delhi has sought to improve and broaden relations with as many major power centres as possible, especially, but ...
... Security Council stating, on May 18, 1964, "the negotiations between India and Pakistan might be Page 78 complicated by any outside intervention". USA, Great Britain and the Soviet Union asked for a bilateral settlement instead of UN involvement. The US representative to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, said: "the Kashmir question should be peacefully resolved.... We urged bilateral ...
... expressed a desire to know more about us. That is, about the aims and ideals of the Ashram, the spiritual disciplines we follow and their rationale. You know, officially and in the world's eye the Soviet Union is atheistic and follows a materialist philosophy of life. God, soul, the beyond, or the higher worlds, in these things the new Russians of today have no faith, none. Their entire stress or sraddha ...
... force. In Berlin, the West had just won a trial of strength after nearly a year's blockade by the East: the American airlift of supplies to the city, using fantastic military resources, had led the Soviet Union to lift the blockade in May 1949. But there were certainly going to be two Germanies, each incorporated in a separate strategic zone. Adenauer's Germany was covered by the newly-formed Atlantic ...
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