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In the rather difficult to watch 1992 film "The Chekist," we see the Cheka stripping people naked, shooting them en masse and then filling trucks with their naked dead bodies. Does this accurately reflect the kind of brutality and violence that took place during Lenin's rule over the Soviet Union?
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What were the main reasons that the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1971? Are there any major disagreements in the literature over which were most important?
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Republican Oliver Cromwell publicly refused the crown but as sole ruler lived in the royal palaces, had a regal funeral, & was succeeded by his son. Did any contemporary critics or radical republicans point out that he looked pretty king-ish?
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Khrushchev denounced Stalin and started a de-Stalinization campaign of the government. Why did Khrushchev hold on to the paranoia of the west?
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How come places like Egypt, Iran, and Albania became majority muslim, but countries like Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece stay majority christian despite also being under muslim rule?
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