The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw Pact.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw Pact.
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the United States for conspiracy to commit espionage.
Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 January.
After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the jungle.
Fidel Castro’s nationalisation of American-owned businesses and private property led the Eisenhower administration to cut all diplomatic ties with Cuba.
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SFSR.
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