1957

The Soviet Union launches its first intercontinental ballistic missile

• A Nenets people (or a Lapp, or an Evenk) was considered to be in state custody from birth to the day he completed his education. This meant growing up in a boarding school, away from one's home and ethnic background.

• A nuclear incident at the Kyshtym nuclear plant causes hundreds of cancer cases and contamination over hundreds of square kilometres

• The first World Conference of Communist Parties votes to hang Hungarian communist Imre Nagy

• 1957-1975 Vietnam war

• 1956-1957 Soviet involment in Suez Crisis

• 1953-1959 Soviet involvement in Cuban Revolution

• 1953-1975 Laotian Civil War

• 1950-1959 Massive resettlement of Bartangs people

• 1950-1960 Roshani of the upper villages, like Bartangi, Oroshori and Yazgulami, were made to resettle on the cotton plantations of the Vakhsh valley.

• 1950-1960 Whole Tabasarans villages were deported from the mountains to the plains to provide the manpower required.

• 1948-1960 Involvement to Malayan Emergency

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

• 1944-1958 Romania remained under the direct military occupation and economic control of the USSR

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Estonia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Latvia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Lithuania. The Soviet annexation resulted in mass terror, the destruction of civil liberties, the economic system and Lithuanian culture.

• 1940-1991 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

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