Comecon established
1949 · Event
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance — Soviet bloc economic alliance.
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- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
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- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
Around 1949
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)