Following its independence, the country struggled with the economic and civil crisis through most of the s. Following the adoption of the country's new constitution in , the Azerbaijan SSR Constitution ceased to exist. The Republic of Tajikistan is a landlocked, mountainous country located in Central Asia. Soviet Tajikistan existed between and From to , collective farming and the accelerated expansion of cotton production took place particularly in the southern region of the territory.
Other small scale developments took place over time which resulted in improved irrigation infrastructure. The territory was renamed the Republic of Tajikistan on August 31, and it declared its independence on September 9, Tajikistan was recognized as an independent state by the Soviet Union on December 26, Following its independence, the country fell into the Civil War involving different factions.
As a result, more than half a million residents fled the country due to increased poverty and persecution. With 77, square miles, Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous and landlocked country.
Initially, the Soviet Union had established its power in the region in However, Soviet Kyrgyzstan was established on December 5, The territory's name was changed to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan through a vote by the Supreme Soviet in December On December 25, , Kyrgyzstan attained full independence and on May 5, , the name changed to the Kyrgyz Republic.
Through the better part of the new millennium, the country has suffered immense political instability. Between the s and s, the Soviet Union introduced economic and agricultural policies in the territory that resulted in political repression and famine.
A mass grave for victims who were executed between and was discovered near Minsk. The act was linked to the Soviet Union prompting the nationalists of Belarus to seek independence and declare its sovereignty on July 27, Post-independence, the country has faced many disputes with Russia which have subsequently weakened the relationship between the two countries. The Republic of Uzbekistan is one of the world's doubly landlocked countries and is located in Central Asia. Soviet Uzbekistan was established on October 27, Between and about 1.
Uzbekistan proclaimed itself a sovereign state on June 20, and declared its independence on August 31, Following the country's independence, Uzbekistan held its first election. A fire in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois, kills more than people on December 30, It was the deadliest theater fire in U. Blocked fire exits and the lack of a fire-safety plan caused most of the deaths. The Iroquois Theater, designed by Benjamin John Salvi III walks into two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, and shoots workers with a rifle, killing two receptionists and wounding five other employees.
He was captured the next day after firing 23 shots at a Norfolk, Virginia, medical clinic. Salvi, who On December 30, , the U. Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Just nine months earlier, the ship had been part of a revolution in naval warfare when the ironclad dueled to a standstill with the C.
Virginia Merrimack off Hampton Roads, Virginia, After Lenin died in , Joseph Stalin rose to power and ruled until During his rule, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial and military superpower. The Soviets signed a non-aggression treaty in with Nazi Germany after failing to form an alliance with Western powers. Despite an attempt to stay neutral, the Soviets invaded and annexed territories of several Eastern European states after the start of World War II.
These states included Poland and the Baltic states. After Soviet forces captured Berlin and won the war in Europe in , the territory overtaken by the Soviet forces became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Bloc existed from to in opposition to the capitalist Western bloc. The USSR had established communist governments in Eastern European countries, making Western countries fear the spread of communism to the rest of the world.
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