Joseph Stalin[r]: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. [e]
Semyon Budenny[r]: An Old Bolshevik cavalry general and favorite of Joseph Stalin who rose to Marshal's rank, but was described as a man with "a very large mustache and a very small brain" [e]
Cold War[r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
Afghanistan War (1978–1992)[r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. [e]