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Both relied on daddy's allies, outspent their opponents, and sought to avenge their fathers' political defeats.
Straws in the wind: It's been a bad month for Communists , with election defeats in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Romania, on top of prior losses in Russia and the Czech Republic.
Did these defeats irreparably harm our credibility and propel would-be aggressors to believe that the United States would never fight?
He asks whether the resisters were driven by genuine dislike of Hitler and his ideas, or whether they decided that Hitler was superfluous only after his string of victories turned into a string of defeats.
After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.