Countries by Soviet Encyclopedia Description

"...companies (the largest of them is Standard Oil, which is dominated by the Rockefeller family) have seized the richest oil reserves outside the ....: in Latin America (especially Venezuela), Arab countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, etc.), and Iran"

".. In 1918, led by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), rose up to fight for its national independence. In this struggle, he was supported by the young Soviet Republic."

"The twenty-year rule of the bourgeoisie and the landlords ended in disaster. At dawn on September 1, 1939, Hitler's Germany attacked..."

"Recent enemies — the British and the Boers — have joined forces to hold in their hands the domination of several million indigenous African people."

"But the workers of... were increasingly in favor of granting full independence to the island. Their struggle was crowned with success. On August 8, 1965... announced its withdrawal from Malaysia."

"By the end of 1949, the democratic army had to stop the armed struggle... a brutal pro-fascist regime and American domination were established... In 1952... was drawn into the aggressive military organization of NATO..."

"... together with Britain and France, it participated in the triple aggression against Egypt. In June 1967... carried out a new aggression against the UAR, as well as Syria and Jordan..."

"Residents of the borderlands... remembered it... in the spring, when, after the melting of the snows, unusually dressed young people who spoke a peculiar Catalan dialect came to Barcelona or Beziers to get a job, running away from unbearable need..."

"In 1821... but even today... forced to fight for national freedom - now against the American imperialists. Quetzal is a symbol of freedom. ....do not want to live in captivity. They are actively fighting and they will win."

"In 1956, international reaction, primarily the imperialist circles of the USA, managed to unleash a counterrevolutionary rebellion in... in order to... restore capitalist order in it. The... workers, with the support of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, eliminated the counterrevolutionary rebellion"

"The history of... knows a case when a member of the royal family drowned... it was enough to reach out to save a drowning man... touching the king or anyone from his family was considered sacrilege."

"The French colonialists killed a million..., and imprisoned as many more in camps. Fleeing terror, half a million... fled to Tunisia and Morocco..."