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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
Ex-Nazi’s are still being caught and held accountable for their actions during WW2, even in their very senior years. How come members of the Khmer Rouge are not held to the same international degree? Why did Pol Pot die a free man after he was captured?	137	AskHistorians
If Joseph Stalin intercepted Lenin’s will in reguards to his successor, thoughts of Stalin, Trotsky, then how do people know about it?	44	AskHistorians
During the last days before the Soviets invaded Berlin in 1945, and the government began burning/destroying important secrets and documents, did we ever find out the contents of anything destroyed or are they lost to history? What would it have consisted of?	29	AskHistorians
After the Cuban middle crisis, leaders of the USA & USSR installed telephones in each other’s offices as a direct line of communication to prevent nuclear war. Does this still exist between nuclear powers today?	27	AskHistorians
How have American defectors been since the collapse of the Soviet Union? Were things in place to keep them taken care of by the Russian federation or would nothing transfer over? Does the fsb continue off KGB intelligence or is it a new agency altogether?	24	AskHistorians
I’ve heard conflicting reports about Stalin’s reaction with the Japanese bombings. One about him knowing well before it was revealed (via a mole working in Manhattan). The other saying he found out post bombing, feeling betrayed, had ordered nuke R&D ultimately starting the Cold War. What’s right?	2	AskHistorians
Korea was split by US and Soviet hands into north and south after the Korean War, however I found out that Vietnam was also split in half, but this was before the Vietnam war. who was responsible for the split and how did the monarchy’s rule extend to the territories?	0	AskHistorians
The Soviets arrested/exiled/all people of German heritage after hitler invaded. They became very anti German. Did this affect their God like views and worship of Karl Marx? Did they ever praise the Germans for backing Lenin to start the revolution? Were those Germans communists?	0	AskHistorians

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