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98 years ago today in 1920, Soviet armies sent by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky begin to assault the Vistula River north of Warsaw, Poland. Despite being on the verge of defeat, the Polish army over the next 12 days managed to stop the early spread of Communism into Europe in the Battle of Warsaw.
Assuming control of Russia after the destabilization of World War One. The Communist Revolution sought to expand as far as it could throughout Europe. The Russian provinces that r...
Continue Reading53 years ago today in 1965, the Los Angeles's South Central neighborhood of Watts becomes the greatest scene of racial tension America had seen at that point.
Even with the Federal Civil Rights Act passing in 1964, racial tensions were still not pacified throughout the country. On August 11th a Los Angeles police officer pulled over Marquette Frye and his brother suspecting them of drunk driving. While the officers were questioning them, a crowd of onlookers began to watch. M...arquette’s mother had showed up to the scene and a struggle ensued which led to all 3 family members being arrested. After the scene was clear, the crowd had grown in size and anger and a riot would soon follow. Thousands of soldiers were needed to pacify the incident as the unrest lasted 6 days and killed over 30 people, wounded more than a thousand, and caused more than 50 million dollars’ worth of damage.
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(http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html )
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