The Rise and Fall of the USSR, 15 Banknote Collection Folio In Display Book

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The Rise and Fall of the USSR, 15 Banknote Collection Folio In Beautiful Display Book
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This collection includes the first full-size issues of all 15 former members of the Soviet Union.
No country suffered more losses in the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The number of war dead is estimated at a staggering 24 million—some 14 percent of the pre-war population. The material losses were just as horrific. But for all this devastation, the Soviet Union somehow emerged from World War II as the most dominant force in continental Europe—one of two superpowers that dominated the world stage in the second half of the 20th Century. The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany had allowed Soviet spheres of influence in Romania, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland. Soon after, the Soviets had occupied Eastern Poland and the Baltic states. Despite the mass destruction during and immediately after the war, Stalin managed to consolidate power, as the U.S., Great Britain, and the other Allied powers had no desire to make war on the USSR. From 1945 and 1949, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and Albania all became Soviet satellite states. It was, in Winston Churchill’s famous phrase, as if an “iron curtain” had been drawn across that part of the continent. Thus began the Cold War, when the USSR and its Warsaw Pact affiliates vied for global supremacy against the United States and its NATO allies. With both sides capable of wiping each other out—and destroying the world in the process—neither were inclined to push the button. This concept of mutually assured destruction, or MAD, prompted both governments to adopt different, more subtle means of warfare. The U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. never joined in battle like, say, Rome and Persia did. Instead, they fought each other through contained proxy wars and covert operations. In places like Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, Marxist/ Communist governments aligned with Russia fought bloody civil wars against Western-backed procapitalist (and often Fascist) regimes. The two sides competed for technological superiority. The Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite, in 1957, an event met with near-hysteria in the United States. The Americans ramped up their own space program, creating NASA and investing heavily in research and development. J ust 12 years after Sputnik, the US landed a man on the moon. Meanwhile, all around the world, the CIA, the KGB, and their affiliated agencies worked through sabotage, propaganda, and, sometimes, assassination. One of the most famous of these operations, the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, was launched in 1961. In that same year, the Berlin Wall was built, and J ohn F. Kennedy became president. In the four-and-a-half decades between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were a number of revolts against authoritarian rule: the Tito-Stalin split in Yugoslavia in ’48, East Germany in ‘53, the Hungarian Revolution of ’56, Prague Spring in ’68. The Solidarity movement in Poland in 1989 comprised the first real crack in the Iron Curtain. The Berlin Wall fell later that year, and then, one by one, the nations of Eastern Europe began to break free. On Christmas Day, 1991, the Soviet Union itself officially collapsed, ending the Cold War. One “Union” of Soviet Socialist Republics was now 15 independent nations: the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; the Eastern European countries of Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, in the Caucasus; the sprawling Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan; and Russia itself.
The notes : 1. Armenia │25 Dram │ P34 Obv: Frieze with lion from Erebuni castle │Rev: Arched ornament Dimensions: 126 x 62 mm
2. Azerbaijan │250 Manat │ P13 Obv: Building and value │Rev: Alerbay Can Millibanki Dimensions: 125 x 63 mm
3. Belarus │ 25 Rublei │ P6 Obv: Warrior wielding sword on horseback │Rev: Moose Dimensions: 116 x 54 mm
4 . Estonia │ 10 Krooni P77 Obv: J . Hurt at center, arms at upper right, ascending serial number at right│Rev: Tree Dimensions: 140 x 69 mm
5. Ge
orgia │ 500 Laris │ P29 Obv: View of Tbilisi with statue at center right │Rev: Cave dwellings Dimensions: 105 x 54 mm
6 . Kazakhstan │ 1 Tyin │ P1 Obv: Ornate denomination in circle │Rev: Circular arms Dimensions: 102 x 66 mm
7. Kyrgyzstan │ 1 Tyiyn │ P1 Obv: Bald eagle │Rev: Ornate design Dimensions: 90 x 71 mm
8 . Latvia │ 10 Rubli │ P38 Obv: Value │Rev: Denomination within symmetrical design Dimensions: 120 x 60 mm
9 . Lithuan
ia │ 3 Talonu │ P33 Obv: Numeral with juniper branch │Rev: Two grey herons Dimensions: 121 x 77 mm
10 . Moldova │ 1 Leu │ P8a Obv: King Stefan │Rev: Monastery at Capriana Dimensions: 114 x 58.5 mm
11. Russia │ 5 Rubles │ P239 Obv: Kremlin Spasski Tower │Rev: Value Dimensions: 114 x 58 mm
12. Tadjikistan │ 1 Ruble │ P1 Obv: Arms │Rev: Majlisi - Parliament Dimensions: 102 x 55 mm
13. Turkmenistan │5 Manat │P2 Obv: Building, Value │Rev: Building Dimensions: 126.5 x 63 mm
14 . Ukraine │ 1 Karbovane t │ P81 Obv: Viking sister, value │Rev: Cathedral of St. Sophia In Kiev Dimensions: 105.5 x 54 mm
15. Uzbekistan │ 1 Sum │ P61 Obv: Arms │Rev: Mosque Dimensions: 121 x 61.5 mm
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