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Anti-communism
- FascismThe word fascism originates from the Italian term fascio, meaning bundle of sticks. This concept traces back to ancient Rome where a fasces was a bundle of…
- Western BlocOn the 5th of March 1946, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood in Fulton, Missouri to declare that an iron curtain had descended across the…
- Anti-communismIn 1918, the Russian White movement began fighting against the Bolshevik government that had seized power during the October Revolution of 1917.
- Baltic WayOn the 23rd of August 1939, a secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
- NazismThe word Nazi began as a derogatory nickname for a backward farmer or peasant in Bavaria. It was a hypocorism, or pet name, derived from the German male name…