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monitor the citizenry. The joke form is often associated with the Soviet emigrant comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who used it, for example, in a 1985 Miller

Navahrudak was transferred from Poland to the Byelorussian SSR of the Soviet Union under territorial changes dictated by the Potsdam Agreement. Rae Kushner

later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she

1990). "Armand Hammer Dies at 92; Industrialist and Philanthropist Forged Soviet Links". The New York Times. Skrzycki, Cindy (12 December 1990). "INDUSTRIALIST

inspiration for her 2011 book by the same name. Yemchuk describes the area as a "Soviet version of Coney Island" during the summer when woods and waterfronts of

Jewish family on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Her mother, Elvira, was a physics teacher who ran a pharmacy, and

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922

formation of the Soviet Union, Yul's father Boris Briner was required to relinquish his Swiss citizenship. All family members were made Soviet citizens. Brynner's

born 28 October 1950) is a Russian-American actress. She was famous in the Soviet Union for her roles in movies, and then gained additional popularity for

(born 20 June 1989) is a Soviet-born actor in Canadian and US media. Eve Harlow is of Jewish descent, and was born in Soviet Moscow on 20 June 1989. After