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1970s in the Soviet Union | HearLore
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1970s in the Soviet Union
Era of StagnationMikhail Gorbachev stood before the Communist Party in 1985 and labeled the previous decades as an Era of Stagnation. He used this phrase to describe the…
Sino-Soviet splitIn November 1945, Soviet commander Rodion Malinovsky ordered the Red Army to hand over Japanese weapons to Chinese communists.