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☆ Ford in talks to restart making cars in India for export
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ford Motor held talks with India's Tamil Nadu state to explore producing vehicles for export, the state's chief minister said, potentially signaling that the U.S. carmaker could restart production in India after exiting the country three years ago. Ford sold one of its two plants in India to Tata Motors in 2023. Its other plant, which is in Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, was shuttered. "Had a very engaging discussion with the team from Ford Motors. Explored the feasibility of renewing Ford's three decade partnership with Tamil Nadu, to again make in Tamil Nadu for the world," M.K.

Persons: Ford, M.K, Stalin Organizations: New York, Auto, Ford Motor, Tata Motors, Ford Motors, Tamil Locations: Manhattan , New York City, U.S, Tamil, India, Asian, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

☆ India general election 2024: Polls open in world’s biggest vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Polls will open Friday for the first phase of India’s marathon general election, kicking off a vote in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to win a rare third consecutive term. Challenging the BJP is India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, and its newly formed INDIA alliance of parties. India’s Election Commission has imposed restrictions on media, including CNN, that limits the publication of reporting and analysis in the run-up to and during polling days. Supporters of India's opposition party, Indian National Congress (INC) during the election campaign in Puducherry on April 15, 2024. Among the most politically important states is Uttar Pradesh, home to 240 million people who vote in all seven phases.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Biju Boro, Modi, ”, Satish Babu, Mamata Banerjee, Dravida, Stalin, Altaf Qadri Organizations: CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Indian, Bharatiya Janata, United Nations Security Council, Indian National Congress, Getty, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, All, Trinamool, Tamil Locations: India, Guwahati, AFP, India’s, Puducherry, Lok Sabha, Uttar Pradesh, Lok, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Dravida, INDIA, . West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, Nicobar Islands, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Myanmar, Manipur

☆ The Korean War ended 70 years ago. Here's how the 'forgotten war' started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Stephen Carlson | Task | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This began the deployment of Task Force Smith, the first American combat troops to arrive and fight in the Korean War. It was Soviet leader Josef Stalin himself who reluctantly gave the go ahead to North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung to invade. Task Force Smith suffered its heaviest casualties during the retreat, with enemy machine gun positions hitting them from close range. Crew members give first aid to wounded soldier, during action in the Korean War. After American and UN reinforcements arrived, a counteroffensive drove the North Korean military to the brink of collapse.

Persons: Charles B, Smith, Force Smith, Josef Stalin, Kim Il, Task Force Smith, Gordon Sullivan, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Sung, Adolf Hitler, Dean Acheson, Christmas, Dwight D, Eisenhower Organizations: North Koreans, South, Service, North, Soviet Union, 국군 Republic of Korea Armed Forces, Wikimedia Commons Bombers, US Far East Air Force Command, Royal Australian Air Force, Suwon, KA, Korean Army, US Army, North Korean Communist, Wikimedia, Task Force, Artillery, Army, Wikimedia Commons, Crew, National Archives, Records Administration, Staff, Force, Communist, National Press Club, Armored Forces, Arlington National Cemetery, American, UN, North Korean, Public Locations: Wall, Silicon, Camp Woods, Kumamoto, Japan, Soviet, Korean, 국군 Republic, Pusan, South Korea, Republic of Korea, Osan, Korea, Saipan, United States, Arlington, Tim1965, Pacific, China, Kaesong, U.S, Soviet Union, North Korea, North

☆ How Putin spent 20 years rebuilding Russia's military 'and then just simply destroyed it' in Ukraine, according to an expert who watched it happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Vladimir Putin has spent his two decades in power rebuilding and reforming Russia's military. Below, Galeotti describes those reforms, what they achieved, and how, in a devastating war in Ukraine, Putin has squandered the military he built. IGOR SAREMBO/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen Putin came to power at the end of the 1990s, what was the state of the Russian military? How did the Russian military underperform in that conflict in Georgia? What did those conflicts show about the capabilities of the Russian military and about the impact of those reforms?

☆ Lecții de război neînvățate în 76 de ani de pace
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-13 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +6 min

Pe 23 august 1939, Germania și URSS semnează la Moscova Pactul de neagresiune și împart între ele zonele de influență în Europa (Protocolul adițional secret Ribbentrop-Molotov). La o săptămână după asta, pe 1 septembrie, Germania atacă Polonia, iar două săptămâni mai târziu face același lucru și URSS. Altfel-zis, Moscova devine complicele Berlinului în problema celui de-al doilea război mondial. Dar asta nu era în niciun caz un alt război, separat de cel de-al doilea război mondial, un „război pentru apărarea Patriei”, după cum îl afișează Moscova. Mă întreb: câți dintre ei știu că războiul a omorât circa 100 de milioane de oameni și doar a cincea parte erau sovietici.

Persons: Putin, Stalin, Rusiei, Molotov, URSS . Hitler, Hitler, Lucrurile, Ribbentrop, - lea Reich, Mizele, Vladimir Putin, Igor Dodon, Dodon Organizations: Rusia Locations: Moscova, Rusiei, Germania, URSS, Rusia sovietică, Europa, Polonia, Germaniei, Rusia, Finlanda, Țările Baltice, Basarabia, Berlinul, Europa Centrală, Est, sovietic, Chișinău, Basarabiei

☆ de la comemorare, la propagandă — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-07 | by ( Ștefan Grigorița | Autor Invitat | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +6 min

Potrivit hotărârii cu privire la zilele comemorative, zilele de sărbătoare şi la zilele de odihnă în Republica Moldova, în această zi se sărbătorește Ziua Europei și Ziua Victoriei. Primul act al capitulării a fost semnat la Reims, Franța, la ora 02:41 a zilei de 7 mai 1945. Stalin a fost nemulțumit de condițiile în care a fost semnat actul capitulării. Al doilea act al capitulării a fost semnat la scurtă vreme după ora 0:00 a zilei de 8 mai. Având monopol pe „relațiile cu Rusia”, primii care au organizat un așa eveniment în Republica Moldova a fost PSRM, în anul 2016.

Persons: Ivan Susloparov, occidentali, Stalin, Gheorghi Jukov, Jukov, Boris Elțîn, Bill Clinton, Putin, Gheorghe, Dorin Chirtoacă, Igor Dimitriev, PSRM Organizations: Armatei Roșii, URSS, PCRM Locations: Republica Moldova, Paşti, Germania, Reims, Franța, Uniunii Sovietice, Berlin, Regatului Unit, Franței, SUA, Germaniei, Europei Centrale, Moscova, Europa, URSS, Polonia, Țările Baltice, Karelia de, Finlanda, Basarabia, Prut, Nistru, Uniunea Sovietică, Octombrie, Rusiei, Cecenia, Federația Rusă, Germaniei Naziste, Ucraina, Belarusul, sovietice, Tomsk, Rusia, Tiraspol

(foto) Viața din RSSM văzută prin fotografii rare din anii ’40-’80Agenția Națională a Arhivelor a creat o pagină pe Instagram unde publică fotografii din perioada sovietică. La cosit în colhozul „Viață Nouă”, raionul Telenești, anul 1949. Colhozul „Viață Nouă”, raionul Telenești, anul 1952. Mulgătoarea E. V. Știrbu din colhozul „Viața Nouă”, raionul Telenești, anul 1953. E. I. Cărăuș în colhozul ,,I. Stalin”, satul Bulboaca, anul 1950.

Persons: Belous, Gagarin, Suvorov, T . Albin, Nadejda, ., . I ., I . Stalin Organizations: Agenția Națională a Arhivelor, Agenția Națională Locations: RSSM, Drochia, Slobozia, Chișinău, Telenești, Briceni, Râbnița, Ialoveni, ., Chișinău, Leova, Râșcani, Bulboaca

Odată cu împărțirea influenței în Polonia, Hitler și Stalin au devenit și mai apropiați, creând un hotar comun. „Tancul БТ a fost proiectat de George Christie, inginer american care nu a fost recunoscut la el în țară. Germania nu a fost singurul stat agresor, iar Uniunea Sovietică nu a fost victimă. După mine, latura umană a istoriei, evoluția culturii sau dezvoltarea tehnicii și a științelor e mult mai interesantă decât războaiele. Cine a început Al Doilea Război Mondial?”, care a fost tradusă în peste 50 de limbi.

Persons: Victor Suvorov, Lenin, Stalin, Jukov, Tuhacevski, Egorov, Malinovski, Iosif Stalin, Beria, Marx, Engels, Troțki, Hitler, Haideți, Adolf Hitler, Suvorov, . Sovieticii, Vladimir Lenin, Lev Troțki, Molotov, Ribbentrop, Polonia . Hitler, Evident, Ea, sovietici . Hitler, . Hitler, german Frederic Barbarossa, George Christie, 16, P.V, Autorul, I.V, URSS C.C, Barbarossa, . Stalin, Corina Budurin, Ionela Morari, Anatolie, Boris Dinga, - lea, Ala Gherman, Liviu Deleanu, Putem, Pun, Corina Lungu, Vladimir Rezun, Vladimir Bukovski, Mark Salonin, Cain Organizations: KGB, Ministerului Educației, URSS, Armata Roșie, Messerschmitt, Proiectorii, sovietic, Armatei, Academiei, Științe, Națiunilor, Liga Națiunilor, Culturii, Cercetării, Armatei Roșii Locations: Al, URSS, Germania, Iakovlev, Belov, Europa, Statele, Germaniei, Țările Baltice, Finlanda, Basarabia, Vest, Polonia, Basarabiei, România, Finlandei, Europa de Vest, Franței, Angliei, Europei, sovietici, Est, Poloniei, german, Sfântului Imperiu Roman, Uniunea Sovietică, Harkiv, SUA, american, lideră, Messerschmitt - 109E, României, Anglia, Europe, Asia, Chișinău, Germania nazistă, Franța, Rusia, Rusia Europeană, Ucraina, Uniunii Sovietice, Criuleni, Versailles, germană, Rece, nazist, Imperiul Britanic, Japoniei, Germaniei naziste

☆ ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera
▼ + stars: | 2015-06-21 | by ( Diane Johnson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

They stroll in the Luxembourg Gardens, they go to a party, they gossip, and we overhear their private reflections. Like writers, ideas have their eras, as undeniable at showing their vintage as gray hair and wrinkles. D’Ardelo, who has just heard from his doctor that his medical tests are negative, nevertheless tells the others that he has cancer. Elsewhere, “On woman’s erotic body there are certain golden sites: I always thought there were three such: the thighs, the buttocks, the breasts. golden sites represents an erotic message.” But these are messages a novelist would not put in the mouth of a modern male character unless he was trying to characterize him as an irredeemable sexist.

Persons: Ramon, Charles, Alain, D’Ardelo, Khrushchev, Caliban, It’s Ramon, “, There’s, ”, Stalin, Kalinin, antic, Marie de Medici, Nietzsche, Sartre, Madame Franck, Sigmund Freud, Henry Miller, Brigitte Bardot Locations: Luxembourg, D’Ardelo’s, Soviet Russia, Eastern Europe, West

☆ ‘Peter and the Wolf’ Review: Bono Meets Prokofiev
▼ + stars: | 1953-03-05 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A still from ‘Peter and the Wolf’ Photo: MaxRussian composer Sergei Prokofiev passed away on March 5, 1953, an event that received very little news coverage— Joseph Stalin decided to die on the very same date. Stalin not only hijacked Prokofiev’s death day, he made the last years of the composer’s life (and the entire Soviet Union, one might argue) impossible, thus casting Prokofiev’s decision to return home, after years abroad, as one of the classical music world’s great unforced errors.

Persons: ‘ Peter, Max, Sergei Prokofiev, — Joseph Stalin, Stalin Locations: Max Russian, Soviet Union

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