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
21st June 2019
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
Shortly after midnight on the 25th February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered his ‘secret speech’, officially called “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences”, in a four hour “closed session” at the end of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year plan.
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28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018