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Soviet Russia and Ukraine vs Second Republic of Poland for control of modern day Ukraine.
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Stalin rises to power, along with Zinoviev and Kamenev.
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Centralized economic plans following communist principles.
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Central Administration Department of the Soviet Secret Service
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Major grain-producing areas suffered, USSR forced Ukraine to meet irrational quota of food exports.
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Soviet Secret Police was formed, conducted mass extrajudicial executions, ran the Gulag system of forced labor camps and suppressed underground resistance.
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The Trial of the 16 was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945.
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Traditionally considered one of the key trials of the Great Purge
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The last of the Moscow Trials
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Soviet Russia loses 11% of industrial output to the Germans
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Turning point of WWII, Germans never regained initiative in the East, withdrew forces in the West
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