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ARCOS (All Russian Cooperative Society) was a Soviet spy-front posing as the Soviet Trade Mission in London during the 1920s.
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The Duma was the lower House of the Russian Imperial Parliament. It was created in 1905 by the Constitution granted by Tsar Nicholas II, and replaced in 1917 by the Soviet system.
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Glasnost is a policy of increased freedom in social and cultural matters introduced in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachov in 1986. A Russian word meaning openness, glasnost was adopted by the Soviet government in conjunction with perestroika (meaning progress), which heralded a new flexibility in the organisation of the economy of the USSR, and facilitated the improvement of relations with the West (by allowing Western entrepreneurs to exploit the markets). However, it led to the creation of a small clique of super-rich and criminals, and for the majority of Russians worse poverty than before.
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The Gulag is the central administrative department of the Soviet security service. It was established in 1930 and is responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps.
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Kremvax was originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax.
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Soviet is a Russian word meaning 'council' and describes a system invented by the Englishman James Elishama Smith, and adopted by the Russians where by organised industries or trades, and not localities are the unit of representation and delegation. The Soviets were elected councils, anyone over the age of 18 able to vote so long as they were a worker, or looked after a worker, or were a former worker etc., thus excluding people who lived by exploiting others. The system was effectively spoiled by Stalin and eventually was broken in the 1990s by corruption and greed.
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The Budyonny is a Russian breed of sporting horse developed during the 1920s and named after Marshal Budyonny, a Soviet cavalry commander of the Russian Revolution. The Budyonny stands 16 hands high and is mostly chestnut, but can also be grey, brown, bay or black in colour and exhibits a free action, very good gallop and an athletic jump, but are not so fast as the Thoroughbred.
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The Soviet Heavy Draft is a Russian breed of heavy horse developed at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century. The Soviet Heavy Draft stands 15.3 hands high and is chestnut, bay or roam in colour with a massive build and good agility. They do however suffer from a relatively poor resistance to disease and are prone to pigeon toes in the front feet and sickle hocks behind.
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Alexey Novikov-Priboy was a Soviet writer. He was born in 1877 and died in 1944. He served in the Tsarist navy, and was a prisoner of war in Japan. He wrote realistic sea stories and novels based on his own experiences, of which the best-known is Tsushinra.
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Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bystroletov was a Soviet OGPU agent. He was born in 1901. His first major success as an agent came in 1927 at Prague when he seduced a 29 year old woman (subsequently codenamed Laroche) working at the French embassy. She provided Bystroletov with copies of French diplomatic ciphers and classified communications.
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