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Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on The Moscow Accords
The Moscow Accords, formally the Common Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), is a collective defense treaty signed in Moscow, Soviet Union, on 17 February 1940, shortly after the conclusion of the Winter War. The original signatories include...
Look up Randy Shilts, he was a real life reporter, the first gay reporter for a major American newspaper. He was born in 1951 so he'd be 34 in this article.
Unfortunately he died of AIDS in 1994
I try to use real life figures for my side stories.
An article from the San Francisco Chronicle, November 16, 1983
The Red Closet
By Randy Shilts
The names used in this article are Pseudonyms in order to protect the identities of those interviewed
In the USSR, homosexuality is classified as Burgeois immorality, a mental illness, citing Marx...
The New York Times
January 25, 1973
Nelson Mandela killed in Rescue attempt
Robben Island Assault by Guerrillas Leaves Scores Dead; South African Crackdown Intensifies
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 24 — More than two dozen fighters belonging to the South African Red Army and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)...
Threadmarks: Side story 7: Between a rock and a hard place
March 26, 1913
Okhtinsky district
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
I entered my apartment, yawning as I stretched my back. It had been a long day at work: roughing up criminals, taking bribes, working for other criminals. Nothing beat being a corrupt cop in the capital of the Russian Empire.
It...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia Page on the Great Terror
The Great Terror (German: Großer Terror), also known in Germany as the Bloody '44 and '45 (German: Verdammte 44 und 45) and the Reign of Yagoda (German: Die Herrschaft Jagodas), was a campaign of political repression, mass executions, and...
Excerpt from Stephen Kotkin's 2014 book: Mikheil Jugashvili, The Red Rockefeller and His Rivers of Blood
In April 1922, the Basmachi rebellion in Central Asia stood near its apogee. Enver Pasha's forces controlled almost half of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic; Junaid Khan's guerrillas...
Article from Pravda
Date: August 5, 1978
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 53 INTERNATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS
Doctors in Moscow and Leningrad have diagnosed among returned Internationalist corps volunteers and SovAid volunteers who returned from over a dozen states in Subsaharan Africa, including front line...
Lyrics of the song Stranger, by the Soviet new wave band Vostok, Released February 7, 1987. Subsequently number 1 on MosRecords Hot 100 songs for 2 weeks in a row. [1]
I've just arrived
In this ancient city
From a faraway land
With mud in my boots
Walking through these streets
Red star...
June 12, 1989
Mapo-gu, Seoul
People's Soviet Republic of Korea
Jae-il Kim stepped out of his apartment building and paused for a moment, glancing back.
It looked like every other solyeongwon in the district—gray, identical, efficient. When he first moved there as a kid, there had only been ten...
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page on The Thaw on the Moskva River
The Thaw on the Moskva River refers to the period from the end of the Second World War in 1944 to the early 1970s, characterized by sustained economic growth in the Soviet Union alongside a gradual relaxation of political...
April 2, 1922
Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky sat near the front rows of the theatre, posture straight, hands resting calmly as he watched the aftermath of Mikheil Jugashvili's speech unfold. The entire hall had heard...
April 2, 1922
Bolshoi Theather
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
We had been sitting through this circus for six days straight. Six days of speeches, votes, posturing, ideological purity contests, and the usual polite lies everyone pretended to believe. Most of it didn't...
Statement from the office of the Grand Mufti of the Soviet Union
Declaration of Jihad against Nazi Germany
Date of release: June 22, 1941
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
"Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged...
The New York Times
October 7, 1972
Soviet Paratroopers Crush Afghan Anti-Royalist conspiracy, Back Royal Government
Airborne Forces Land at Bagram; Mass Arrests and Purges Follow
KABUL — Two regiments of Soviet airborne forces landed at Bagram Air Base late Friday on October 6th and joined...
October 19, 1921
Lubyanka
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
I came into Dzerzhinsky's office with a folder under my arm and murder in my heart.
The folder mattered more.
Murder, for all its charm, is just sentiment unless it comes with planning. The folder was planning...