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Dahlia M asked:


domino effect, korean war, sputnik launched, I.C.B.Ms (firsy launched), U-2 incident, czechoslovakia invaded by warsaw pact, SALT 1 treaty signed, Helsinki Accords, soveits invade afganistan, SALT 2 treaty abandoned, Truman doctrine, european steel and coal community, brezhnev doctrine, lech walesa, solidarity movement, gdansk agreement.

senesmh asked:


if Angela Merkel and Jack Shirak would marry each other? lets suppose they are single. is it possible?

AJ asked:


Or does the executive have too much power in practice regardless of the system?

Suppose Mugabe sat in the Oval Office. Would America be a better place than the one we have now?

Are there any countries that exhibit a system of clear checks and balances? Countries with a weaker executive?

lankhai2006 asked:


Do you think among those former dissidents, Vaclav Havel is the best leader in post-communist Eastern Europe? Boris Yeltsin brought down communism in Soviet Union, but later he became drunk and fat, and his children are said to be corrupt businesspeople. Gorbachev and Walesa are disliked in their own countries.

What do you think?