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... Soviet cos- monaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space . The son of a carpenter on a collective farm , Gagarin graduated as a molder from a trade school near Moscow in 1951. He continued his studies at the industrial ...
... Soviet cos- monaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space . The son of a carpenter on a collective farm , Gagarin graduated as a molder from a trade school near Moscow in 1951. He continued his studies at the industrial ...
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... SOVIET NONAGGRESSION PACT , GERMAN - SOVIET TREATY OF NONAGGRESSION , HITLER - STALIN PACT , or MOLOTOV - RIBBEN- TROP PACT ( Aug. 23 , 1939 ) , nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded a few days ...
... SOVIET NONAGGRESSION PACT , GERMAN - SOVIET TREATY OF NONAGGRESSION , HITLER - STALIN PACT , or MOLOTOV - RIBBEN- TROP PACT ( Aug. 23 , 1939 ) , nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded a few days ...
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... Soviet official , the general sec- retary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) from 1985 to 1991 and presi- dent of the Soviet Union from 1990. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990 . Gorbachev was the son of ...
... Soviet official , the general sec- retary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) from 1985 to 1991 and presi- dent of the Soviet Union from 1990. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1990 . Gorbachev was the son of ...
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