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unusual facts about Communist Russia


Communist Russia

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the biggest republic of the Soviet Union, 1918–1991


By Royal Command

As he was more sympathetic towards Hitler, and the fact that Dandy and Roan would have claimed to be working for the Communists, the United Kingdom would have formed an alliance with Germany, isolating the French and giving Germany an ally in the ensuing war against Communist Russia.

Pnin

Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and what he calls the "Hitler war", is an assistant professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, possibly modeled on Cornell University or Wellesley College, both being places where Nabokov himself taught.


see also

Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin

After the revolution Milyutin held various executive appointments in Communist Russia related to social security, central planning and finance; reaching that of Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR in 1924–1929.

Ormonde Winter

In 1940 at the age of 65, he offered his services to the Finnish Army, in their defence against Communist Russia.

Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (In Russian: Soyuz' Bor'bi za Osvobozhdeniye Narodov Rossii, Союз Борьбы за Освобождение Народов России, abbreviated as SBONR, СБОНР) was an organization of anti-communist Russians, regardless of ethnic origin, which emerged from the youth organization of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.