I believe she was born in the early 1920s and then came to the US not long after. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic started in 1919.
When the Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) became part of the Soviet Union in 1944, was it an occupation or an incorporation?
Reading about North Korea's famous songbun policy of the military's power over civilian government made me wonder if there were any parallels with allied governments at the eve of the Cold War.
I was idly wandering about nuclear weapons proliferation and what happens when a nuclear armed state collapses. This got me thinking about the fall of the Soviet Union. This is (as far as I am aware) the only instance of a nuclear armed state ceasing to exist with all the disruption that comes from that. In the disorder that followed the collapse was there ever a risk of nuclear materials going missing and what steps were taken to prevent this (and by whom)?
In a democracy or a monarchy there are protocols and plans for the succession of power. Eg. The eldest son becomes king or the person who leads the party with the most seats in parliament becomes Prime Minister. Was there any set protocol or rules for the succession of power in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union? The National Socialists proclaimed a thousand year Reich and the Communists proclaimed a world state ruled by the workers; however, what was their plan for the succession of power?
For example, after Lenin died the choices were either Stalin or Trotsky. Stalin won out because mr. cuecard had more influence and picked powerful allies in the Politburo. After Hitler died and Goebbels followed him, Admiral Doenitz was chosen as the leader because out of the Luftwaffe, the Heer, and the Kreigsmarine, Doenitz and the navy screwed up or betrayed Hitler the least. It all seems pretty arbitrary and random to me, someone please explain thanks
Still gone :(
