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	Generalissimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A generalissimo is a commissioned officer of the highest rank; the word is often translated as "Supreme Commander" or "Commander in Chief".
		The dictator Francisco Franco, Chief of State of the Spanish State, also held the title Generalísimo de los Ejércitos Españoles, or "Generalissimo of the Spanish Armies", a title which expressed his supreme command of the Army, Navy, and Air Force of the Spanish State.
		The Japanese title of Shogun is in a way comparable to that of generalissimo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generalissimo (180 words)

	Joseph Stalin killer file
		The USSR, a union of the Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, and Transcaucasian republics, is established in December 1922.
		Japan and the Soviet Union sign the Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact on 13 April, removing the threat to the Soviets of invasion by Japan.
		Soviet citizens repatriated from wartime detention in foreign prisons and work camps are deemed to be traitors and are executed or deported to Soviet prison camps.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/stalin.html (4396 words)

	nobs: Inside the Soviet Army ( I ) by Victor Suvorov (1982)
		Soviet Communists have slaughtered scores of millions of their own peasants and have nationalised their land, which they are unable to develop, even if they wished to.
		To the Soviet Union Romania is an opponent.
		Soviet propaganda publishes the names of the head of the KGB and of his deputies, those of the heads of ministries, of the heads of all military research institutions, of the Defence Minister and of all his deputies.
	nobsblog.blogspot.com /2001/04/inside-soviet-army-i-by-victor-suvorov.html (19593 words)

	Info and facts on 'Generalissimo' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The term "Generalissimo" in English has come to refer to a kind of ruler who has ascended to that position by a military coup (additional info and facts about military coup).
		In most developed English-speaking countries, the term commonly invokes the image of corrupt dictatorships and so-called "banana republics (A small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)) ".
		The Japan (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) ese title of Shogun (A hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68) is in a way comparable to that of generalissimo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/generalissimo.htm (513 words)

	W4361:Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When the Soviet Union broke apart nine years ago, many observers hoped that the new Russian government headed by Boris Yeltsin would disclose all the records of the Soviet regime and face up to the horrific legacy of Communist rule.
		Yeltsin failed to ensure the systematic removal of statues of Lenin and of other monuments glorifying the Soviet regime, and he was unwilling to disband (or even scale back) the sprawling state security organs, which were just as symbolic of Soviet repression as the SS was of Nazi atrocities.
		Soviet officials left little to interpretation and made men such as Zaitsev travel the Soviet Union regaling schoolchildren and workers' groups with their tales.
	www.columbia.edu /~kmp30/COURSE/W4361/reading.html (4367 words)

	The Fall Of The Soviet Union: Whys And Wherefores
		The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 some 70 years after its grimly riveting and highly expectant Marxist-Leninist beginning ranks alongside World War I as the two most singularly pivotal events of the Twentieth Century.
		So the Soviet Union, a failed utopia, never became a developed or modern nation; instead, it was a hybrid form of despotism all its own that never obtained adequate and fair scrutiny in the West.
		But, according to Laqueur, with the exception of the Baltic republics, which had long-standing and well-grounded complaints pertaining to their deracinated inclusion into the Soviet Union, and the egregious economic exploitation of the Central Asian lands, most of the republics were no worse off than they had been under the czar.
	www.raleightavern.org /lovell.htm (2152 words)

	Виктор Суворов. Советская Армия: взгляд изнутри (engl)
		Simply because they study the Soviet Union as they would any other foreign country; they try to explain everything which happens there in language their readers can understand, in generally accepted categories--in other words, in the language of common sense.
		The Soviet Union has put a lot of work into the problem of producing a thermonuclear warhead in which reaction is brought about not by a nuclear detonator but by some other means--for instance, by the simultaneous explosion of a large number of hollow charges.
		In the Soviet Union, the air defence system was so highly developed that it would be quite impossible to confine it within the organisational structure of the Air Forces.
	lib.sarbc.ru /koi/WSUWOROW/army_engl.txt (21282 words)

	STALIN, Iosif Vissarionovich
		In 1939 Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov concluded the non-aggression pact with the Nazi Germany.
		In 1939-1940 Soviet Union acquired vast territory of eastern Poland and annexed the Baltic states.
		In March 1946, the Soviet political structure was slightly changed and Stalin assumed the new office of the chairman of USSR Council of Ministers (19 Mar 1946 - 5 Mar 1953) and minister of the armed forces (19 Mar 1946 - 3 Mar 1947).
	www.archontology.org /nations/ussr/ussr_govt/stalin.php (1371 words)

	The Red Army
		It was not until the spring of 1940 that the 7th and 13th armies led by General Kiril Meretsokov, was able to break through the Finnish defences.
		Soviet agents working in the frontier zone in Poland and Rumania gave detailed reports on the concentration of troops.
		(17) Vsevolod Vishnevsky was a Soviet journalist who reported on the battle for Tallinn during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSred.htm (5205 words)

	[Leaders' Writings]
		Decisions of the 24th CPSU Congress--a programme of action for the Soviet trade unions; speech by Comrade L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, at the 15th Congress of the Trade Unions of the USSR, 1972.
		On the draft constitution (Fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the results of the nationwide discussion of the draft: report and closing speech at the Seventh (Special) Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Ninth Convocation, October 4-7, 1977 / L. Brezhnev.
		Soviet policy on Germany; "we propose peace..." Speeches of N. Khrushchov, and documents of the Soviet Government, June to September 1961.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~martin11/leaders.html (7368 words)

	The Avalon Project : A Decade of American Foreign Policy
		The Foreign Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America met in Moscow from December 16 to December 26, 1945, in accordance with the decision of the Crimea Conference, confirmed at the Berlin Conference, that there should be periodic consultation between-them.
		The Soviet Union contends that the governments of those countries are satisfactory and conditions do not warrant concerted action under the Yalta Agreement.
		I urged upon Generalissimo Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotov that it was in their interest as well as ours, that the peoples of these countries, as well as their governments, should be peacefully disposed toward the Soviet Union.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/decade/decade19.htm (5646 words)

	THE POTSDAM DECLARATION
		The Soviet Government renounces all claims in respect of reparations to shares of German enterprises which are located in the western zones of occupation in Germany, as well as to German foreign assets in all countries, except those specified in Paragraph 9 below.
		The Conference examined a proposal by the Soviet Government on the extension of the authority of the Austrian Provisional Government to all of Austria.
		of Soviet Socialist Republics in accordance with the understanding reached at this Conference and including the area of the former free city of Danzig, shall be under the administration of the Polish State and for such purposes should not be considered as part of the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1945/450802a.html (4389 words)

	Wikinfo \| Field Marshal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The solution was to create the rank of General of the Army, wearing five stars, and equivalent to field marshal.²
		In the Soviet Union, the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was actually the second-highest rank; Josef Stalin, who had appointed himself an "MSU", subsequently promoted himself to the rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, a rank he and only he was ever appointed to hold.
		At the beginning of the 21st century, with military forces shrinking worldwide, there remain few field marshals to be seen anywhere.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Field_Marshall (556 words)

	Personnel
		He was the leader of the delegation that negotiated with Soviets in 1939.
		After the failure in the negotiations he stayed away from politics until peace was signed, and then first as prime minister and later as president guided Finland to the peace and tried to cope on with the Allied Control Commission with success.
		In 1939 he was worried about the safety of the western borders of the Soviet Union and made the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Aug 1939.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/mirror/sa-int/henk.html (1144 words)

	The Surrender of Japanese Forces in the China Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Because the surrender of Japan is alleged by China to be the event transferring sovereignty of Formosa to China, an examination of the events surrounding the surrender and the Act of Surrender is warranted.
		On 24 October, Gen. Chen Yi, appointed by the Generalissimo in September as Governor-General of Taiwan, arrived in Taipei, and immediately pursued a policy of denigrating the Americans in the eyes of the population.
		Neither did the Soviet Union claim a transfer of sovereignty when her forces occupied the region.
	www.taiwandocuments.org /japansurrender.htm (3481 words)

	Tony Cliff: State Capitalism in Russia (Chap.2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Officially, the institutions in which sovereignty resides in the USSR are the Soviets, headed by the Supreme Soviet (until 1937, by the Congress of Soviets).
		Since the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a state party, analysis of its structure, composition and functioning must also be an analysis of the state machine.
		The Bolshevik faction had forty members in the Petrograd Soviet on 2 March 1917, but when the resolution to transfer power to the bourgeois coalition government was put to the vote, only nineteen voted against.
	www.marxists.org /archive/cliff/works/1955/statecap/ch02.htm (8500 words)

	With the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became much easier for imperialism to defeat or frustrate challenges to ...
		After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became much easier for imperialism to defeat or frustrate its enemies everywhere in the world.
		Countries like Iraq no longer could rely on diplomatic, military and economic support from the Soviet bloc and were also forced to fight without the moral and political support from a disoriented Western left, whose solidarity--when offered--was often of a half-hearted nature.
		On the night of May 30 1961, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo was assassinated with the participation of the United States.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/blum.htm (1499 words)

	Amnesty's Amnesia
		But Amnesty also published more general information about the Soviet political system, the whole of which -- the state-run media, the courts, the secret police -- was geared to the suppression of political dissent.
		Thus Guantanamo is the gulag, President Bush is Generalissimo Stalin, and the United States, in Khan's words, is a "hyper-power" that "thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights" just like the Soviet Union.
		But I loathe these things precisely because the United States is not the Soviet Union, because our detention centers are not intrinsic to our political system, and because they are therefore not "similar in character" to the gulag at all.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060701497.html (753 words)

	The Soviet Army - Ranks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The highest military rank in the Soviet Union is that of Generalissimo.
		The Minister of Defence, other top personnel of the MOD, and high-level combined arms field commanders normally hold the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
		The equivilant Navy rank is Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.
	www.sovietarmy.com /ranks/ranks_fm.html (394 words)

	RIVER OF TIME
		Adolf Hitler broke the anti-aggression pact with Russia on this day in 1941 by invading this country as the Nazi forces crossed the Soviet border in Operation Barbarossa.
		Built exclusively by Russian craftsmen, the 54-cannon ship was generally hailed as one of the world’s finest ships in his class.
		The rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was established on this day in 1945.
	www.vor.ru /English/River/river_034.html (892 words)

	HTC: Confirmation of the Local Church
		Is it wise to express moral indignation against Soviet citizens, the bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate for their "congratulations to Stalin" while closing your eyes to the words of the Bishops of the Church outside Russia who found themselves in a similar situation, not at all Soviet yet very much like it?
		TO THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE VALIANT SOVIET ARMY, THE LIBERATING ARMY, GENERALISSIMO OF THE SOVIET UNION I.V. Moscow, The Kremlin.
		If he kept his faith under Soviet authority without causing any harm to his Orthodoxy, why is he now so fearful that we who live in a free America, completely independent from the USSR, will suddenly like little children fall prey to an undesirable "infiltration"?
	www.holy-trinity.org /ecclesiology/shahovskoy-confirmation.html (4488 words)

	Harmony's Home Page: Civil Liberties Links
		In some cases, this is perfectly natural; Francisco Franco was a lieutenant general in the Spanish Army before he became Chief of State of Spain, and Noriega was officially commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces.
		If they commit minor, non-terrorist offenses, they can still be booted out, without so much as a day in court, because the law would exempt habeas corpus review in some cases.
		More than 50 groups, ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the New York-based Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), said they had agreed to join forces to address what they said was ï¿½the alarming rate of human rights violations in the U.S.ï¿½, particularly as it pursues its ï¿½war on terrorismï¿½.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/7076/civilliberty.html (13544 words)

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