Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On the 14th January 1943, the Casablanca Conference began in Morocco.
The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’.
Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world superpower.
On the 29th August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning.
On May 12th 1949, the Soviet Union ended its blockade of West Berlin.
The sensational defection of Stalin’s only surviving child made international news and four days later, at a press conference in the Plaza Hotel, she denounced the Soviet Communist regime and her father’s leadership.
Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war Europe.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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