| | Soviet Union Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Soviet troops intervened in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and cited the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Moscow considered Eastern Europe to be a buffer zone for the forward defense of its western borders and ensured its control of the region by transforming the East European countries into satellite states. |
 | | The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. The foreign wing of the KGB was used to gather intelligence in countries around the globe. |
 | | The Soviet Union measured some 10,000 kilometres from Kaliningrad on the in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait, or roughly equivalent to the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, east to Nome, Alaska. |
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