Good morning fellow, my team will expose to Russia, its culture, history, gastronomy, technology, gastronomy, tourist sites

and religion The Russian Federal Republic has an area of 17,075,400 square kilometers, more than one-ninth of the Earth's land surface. HISTORY The history of Russia begins when The Sarmatians and Scythians formerly inhabited the present territory of Southern Russia. To the north came the Slavs (Indo) who invaded the territory in the early centuries of the Roman Empire. Russia's entry into World War I precipitated the crisis of the regime. The losses of war and famine intensified popular discontent and the Revolution ended in February 1917, army units defected to the revolutionary and St. Petersburg created the first Council of Workers and Soldiers ("Soviet"). In December 1922 he founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) composed of the Russian Republic, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation (Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia). Stalin became absolute dictator, liquidating any opposition. Trotsky was expelled from the USSR and took refuge in Mexico where he was assassinated in 1940. It is estimated that the Great Terror of 1935-1938, alone killed 10 million people. In all the purges about 20 million died.

In 1939, a secret agreement with Germany (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) allowed the USSR to occupy part of Poland and Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 1941, Hitler all forces involved in the attack on the USSR. At a cost of between 25 and 30 million dead, the Red Army drove back the German troops and finally took Berlin in May 1945. In 1945 at the Yalta Conference, the Western powers and the USSR agreed to the division of spheres of influence in Europe. In countries occupied by the Red Army (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany), the Communists took power and proclaimed republics, then socialists, on the model of the CPSU. The Cold War strategy led by the United States after the war as a confrontation at all levels between capitalist and socialist systems, triggered the arms race. In 1955 the Warsaw Pact between the USSR and its Eastern European allies. The East-West managed to nuclear weapons and the space race, in which the United States and the USSR were balanced in the 1960 and 1970. In December 1979 the Soviet Union embarked on the war in Afghanistan. It was the first time after World War II that his army was involved in a conflict outside Eastern Europe. Military action was a disaster for the invaders: 104 votes in the UN General Assembly condemned the invasion, 55 countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics and 13,300 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan without the Soviet Union could have won the war. In June 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected Russian president. After a failed coup attempt in August, the CPSU was disbanded after having exercised political power for over 70 years. The change in the USSR triggered similar processes in Eastern Europe.